TWI Admin, Author at The Washington Institute

Articles by TWI Admin

Culture • Current Conversations

How to Leave Lockdown: A Conversation with Carolyn Sinclair and Jim Coffield

TWI Admin | 12 min read

As vaccination rates pick up, even in the face of the quick rise of various COVID variants, we are at a period where some countries are having to lock down while others are opening up. In my own country, the United States, various states have experienced harsher or more mild waves of disease, and some...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Selections from “Poetry in the Pandemic”

TWI Admin | 6 min read

Even as we enter the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, and some see the light at the end of the tunnel, it is going to take years to process the impact it has had on us both individually and collectively. We must think not only about how to live in the pandemic right now,...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

A New Year’s Prayer

TWI Admin | < 1 min read

As 2020 draws to a close, take some time to reflect on these words from the prayer of Saint Francis. May this new year be one in which God shapes us to become people who more fully reflect his image in our vocations, our theology, and our culture: Lord, make me an instrument of your...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

“Bless My Enemies, O Lord”

TWI Admin | 3 min read

Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich of Ohrid and Žiča (1881-1956), a Serbian Orthodox bishop, was arrested and sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau following the German invasion of Yugoslavia. This prayer was published in Prayers By the Lake (2nd ed.; Serbian Orthodox Metropolitinate of New Gracanica, 1999), the seventy-fifth in a collection of one hundred prayers...

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