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Dean Powery Urges Lamenting in Love
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“For the times in which we live, lament is on-time speech,” Chapel Dean Luke Powery says in his most recent column in the (Duke) Chronicle. “If we remember all of the lives taken by international wars and natural disasters, it is time to lament.”
“You lament, not because you hate, but because you love and imagine a different world,” Dean Powery writes in the essay, citing the philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff. “Dare I say, if we don’t lament in the face of all of the suffering we see and experience in the world, we don’t truly know how to love.”
"I urge you in these days to love lament because it can be how you learn to love more honestly, deeply and spiritually," he concludes.