The theme of this year’s World AIDS day is leadership. Bishop John Selders has blogged about what it would mean to have real leadership in the Church in fighting this pandemic.
To be real leaders means first and foremost being authentic about who we are and opening spaces where other’s feel they can be authentic as well. It also means looking beyond our own “house.” If we are white and LGBT that may mean caring with the same intensity for African American women suffering from HIV/AIDS in our inner cities as it means carrying about "our own." For all of us it means we need to connect what’s happening in our neighborhoods with the spread of AIDS around the world.
It may be time to dust off the old slogan “think globally and act locally” and claim it again as we find ways to expand our compassion and activism.
Read Selder’s blog or watch it on You Tube
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