Lemonada

Hi, it's Beth.

It's Saturday night, February 28th.

Sarah is on a plane heading to Texas,

where we'll be speaking to faith leaders

and communities on Sunday and Monday.

I fly out tomorrow morning.

I don't know what the world will look like

by the time this episode reaches you.

I know it looks really different right now than it did when we recorded this episode just a few days ago.

Today, the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.

President Trump announced that the attacks killed Iran's supreme leader.

Both President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have said that regime change is an explicit goal of this operation.

Iran has already begun a campaign of retaliatory attacks.

Today's episode is about war. We knew, as you'll hear when we recorded, that the U.S. going to war with Iran was possible, maybe even likely.

We felt and feel that this episode, reflecting on four years of war in Ukraine is important.

War is changing. The contours of what it can and can't create are different all the time.

We need to be aware of that as we process these strikes and what follows them.

I spent the day-to-day reading questions for elementary school academic team students.

A few times during the day I felt a little guilty.

This news is so big.

Shouldn't I be doing something else?

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