All the Assembly Kept Silence
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...Beyond Good and Evil
Download a PDF of the sermon text Genesis 38: 6-26; Mark 13: 33-37 What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. –Friedrich Nietzsche The story of Tamar and Judah is by no means a...What’s A Human For?
We are so divided, they say. Blue and red, conservative and liberal, urban and rural pulled under separate enclaves like twelve-year old boys and girls at the edges of a dance floor; opposing sides never speaking. Laid on this story of division, of course, are some heart-warming ones about this tow n that is managing a spirit of comity, or that organization hosting hard conversations. The big scheme the media have latched onto is that all are contributing to social disorder because we are all stuck in our own minds, in our own tribes, unwilling to listen or learn, or to see the other’s side.
For Kenneth Young, and all
At the request of Kenneth Young’s wife Irene, I offered these thoughts at a memorial celebration. The sun, an hour or two shy of a midsummer setting, shone in the big tent on a very large assembly looking out over the Hudson River in Columbia County. My words...Inside Out
Twice a month for ten years, I took part in a conversation with men in the state prison at Attica. The program, run by a Franciscan brother, offered no inducements to come to the group—no awards for attendance, no course credits, no promise of letters to the parole board. A man returned to the group only because he wanted to.
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