Doubling Down on Striving for Relational Excellence in the Wake of Global Relational Rupture
a sanity saving swim at Glencoe I know I am not alone in sitting with a sense of heaviness and unease. Not just anger at a political moment, but something deeper: a global relational rupture. The death of Renee Nicole Good who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, has become a flashpoint not just because of what happened, but because of how people are talking about it. Thousands have protested her death, not because they all agree on every detail, but because of the sense that something profoundly human has been lost and demeaned. Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that she was part of a “ leftwing network ” of paid agitators; a tactic that shifts attention from the human being who lived, loved, and was killed to a political caricature. This pattern; of reducing a person to a political problem, a threat, a label, is itself a form of dehumanisation. It is not only what was said in the aftermath about Renee; it is what has more broadly bec...