by Stephen Phelps | Oct 7, 2012 | climate change, environment, sermon 2012, stewardship
According to Genesis, God gave us “dominion,” that we might “fill the earth and subdue it!” Now, this commandment is rather different from all the others in that we have performed it eagerly, to the letter of the law. The Earth: we filled it, and we subdued it. But unlike a horse or a tractor which the master takes back to the shed when its work is done, we don’t know who our master is any more, or when to rest. We are going to keep filling this earth and subduing it until it is subdone!
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 23, 2012 | abortion, sermon 2012, social justice, womens rights
Today, we are going to think through abortion. In this matter, the wings of our citizenry, right and left, seem hardly attached to the same bird. While our prayer for the wings of a dove must never amount to muddling toward the middle, afraid to take a stand, we can bend down and draw out real thought.
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 16, 2012 | education, sermon 2012, social justice
Today, we are exploring what Christian life has to say about education—not just for those following programs, but for everyone who wants to see seed sown in good soil.
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 9, 2012 | disability, identity, sermon 2012, social justice
Could it be more plain that nations yearning to practice only strength, whether financial, legal, military or moral, segregating and oppressing their weak, their workers, their aged, their disabled, their poor, their sick, their least, their lost—that such nations always ultimately lose their bearings and collapse in weakness? Why? Because the human race was not for winning. The human race was for learning how to become humane. Care for what is weak is the core value of the left wing; and all share in its benefits.
by Stephen Phelps | Sep 2, 2012 | economic justice, labor, sermon 2012
As Labor Day comes tomorrow—and despite the fact that on this holiday in America, the interests of laboring people are not much heard above the songs of summer’s end—let us acknowledge, in obedience to virtues of compassion, courage, and truthfulness what some will not: The gulf between the rich and the rest is becoming so great that it is threatening the whole of our civilization.
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