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...

Things That Make for Peace

by | Aug 12, 2012 | militarism, nonviolence, sermon 2012

Things.That.Make.For.Peace-WOTD  from the Wings of the Dove series Texts on Sunday, August 12, 2012 Jeremiah 6: 1-15; Luke 19: 41-48 In very many aspects of our common life, we Americans cannot find the will for concerted moral action. With respect to some of the...

Jesus and the Giant Triplets

by | Jan 15, 2012 | economic justice, militarism, nonviolence, racism, sermon 2012, social justice, spiritual community

n this day of honor for our prophet Martin Luther King, it is well that we remember that no individual, no matter how skilled or gifted, ever simply leads a people out of the valley of the shadow of sleep. No, the rising of a people is a work far more complex. It resists all science and prediction. But this much is sure. The greatness of a leader hangs on the people’s awakening to the severity of their crisis.