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Category Archives: Justice
Harden Not Your Heart
Audio Podcast available here. MLK Service 1/15/17 “Harden Not Your Heart” You might remember a few weeks ago I spoke about my momentary anxiety around how you all would react to the signs that we put out on Drake. … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Sermons
Tagged Accountability, Boundaries, Compassion, Courageous Love, Hate, Justice, Love, Martin Luther King Jr., Non-Violent Resistance, Resistance
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Christmas Eve Homily 2016
Text: Luke 2:1-19 Homily: The Radical Story of Christmas – Mary, Jazz and Turning the World Upside Down It starts with being counted. Whether or not they wanted to make the journey, it didn’t matter. They had to go. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Christmas, Hospitality, Justice, Liberation, Mary, Risk, Transformation, Vision
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Being present in abnormal times
You are not abnormal. You are having a normal response to abnormal circumstances. I’ve said this sentence a hundred times in my care with and for congregants who were dealing with difficult times. It is normal that you are struggling … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Reflections, Justice, Theology
Tagged Abnormal, America, Beloved Community, Justice, Langston Hughes, Maladjusted, Martin Luther King Jr., Politics, Post-election, United States
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Waking Up – Sermon 11/13/2016
Audio podcast of this sermon is available here. Reading – For a Time Such As This by Jake Morrill Sermon As a part of our monthly theme, this Sunday, we were supposed to explore the question: when in your life … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Sermons, Theology
Tagged Church, Comfort, Courageous Love, Darkness, Democracy, Election, Freedom, Heartbreak, Hope, Hopelessness, Justice, Love, Martin Luther King Jr., Mission, Privilege, Risk, Theodore Parker, Vincent Harding, Vulnerability
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the meaning of life, and death – a sermon offered july 24, 2016
Reading: On Living, by Nazim Hikmet Sermon: “The Meaning of Life, and Death” My children, at 8 and 10, are old enough now that they realize when I am listening to the news on the car radio. More importantly, they … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdism, Camus, Depression, Eudaimonia, evolution, Happiness, Justice, meaning, Race, Racism, Reality, Rebecca Parker, Revelation is Not Sealed, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, Truth
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Who is Willing to Destroy a Piece of Their Own Heart?
At my Community Office Hours last Wednesday, a small group of us had gathered and had been sharing in coffee and conversation for about an hour – we’d been talking about tools of comfort and meaning for non-theists after the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Reflections, Justice, Theology
Tagged Comfort, Compassion, Democrats, Discomfort, Evil, Faith, Fear, Healing, Immigration, Justice, Political Process, Politics, Religion, Republicans, Theology, Vulnerability, Wholeness
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