2009-12-082009-12-081998-12http://www.polis.iupui.edu/polis/RUC/Newsletters/Clergy/default.htmhttps://hdl.handle.net/2450/3595As a child, I was brought up with Bible maps that plotted in huge squiggles Abraham’s wanderings through the ancient Near East. The community which Abraham and Sarah drew around them seems a model for our contemporary experience of rootlessness, and aspiration for community: for a place where blessings are shared, strangers welcomed, faith is passed on, hope takes root, and relationships are tested.Newsletter