Now is the time for prophetic action. The world leaders have come to New York briefed by their own economists and political advisors. They are negotiating commitments and generating their collective resolve as governments to achieving the MDGs by 2015. Clearly none disputes the worthiness of the MDGs. But even as they debate the best roadmap to 2015, world leaders are also weighing the probability that any specific commitment they make will pass muster with their citizenries.<\/p>\n
But prophets don\u2019t trade in probabilities. Maimonides, the Jewish scholar of the 12th century, argued that prophetic hope is belief in the “plausibility of the possible” as opposed to the “necessity of the probable.” Likewise, biblical faith calls Christians to something more in this Kairos moment than settling for realistic probabilities. Biblical prophets and Jesus\u2019 ministry calls us to sustain a vision where the needs of all are met in the economy of God.<\/p>\n
At this difficult time in our human global economy, the prophetic witness asked of us cannot merely be one of words but of vociferous, concrete action. Now is the time to move from MDG education and promotion to a model that will enfranchise Episcopalians for goal-oriented action and commitment.<\/p>\n