The word ‘confinement’ has taken on a new horror as we learn of the scandal of transportation worldwide being the vehicle of human trafficking. We are brought face to face with its premeditation and its calculation and its deadly outcome. What we see we know. And what we know we cannot unknow. We are rightly appalled. Confinement meets us in its raw brutality as we approach Christmas 2019. We look for a space of hope in a world of over–communication and under–compassion. We look for a space of love in a world of increasing racism and deepening truthlessness. We look…



