All the Assembly Kept Silence

by | Jul 11, 2021 | America, democracy, economic justice, environment, evil, history, hope, inequality, justice, mass incarceratiom, militarism, race, racism, relinquishment, salvation, social justice, spiritual community, transformation

Download a PDF of this sermon Amos 7:7-15 • Acts 15:6-12 In 2008, a fragment of a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ got clipped into the news cycle for some days. To the shock and awe of millions, that preacher, who was pastor...
On evil and the virus

On evil and the virus

by | Jun 29, 2020 | America, democracy, evil

People–even news magazines–often say that a virus learns to evade or outsmart the drugs designed to kill it. This is a false attribution of intention and intelligence. Viruses have neither. They have one program: more of myself!