Monthly Archives: July 2025
Sermon: Give Gazans their necessary bread!
It has been hard to think about daily necessary bread this week, while seeing the images of skeletal children starving in Gaza. I will not show them to you, because they are simply too graphic for church. Charities have been warning the world of this impending human-created disaster for months; now Palestinians are dying daily of hunger. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed trying to access the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose name is bitterly ironic. Continue reading
Sermon: As I have said before, economics are theological
I do not believe in a God who destroys nations for their wrongdoing. I do believe that the words of Amos are a warning to any nation that might believe it has God on its side, or in today’s terms, that it is a virtuously liberal democracy, and yet commits injustice against the most vulnerable. Continue reading
Sermon: Casting the first stone
There are few things harder than forgiving those who have done wrong, whether they have harmed us or others. For many of us, there is nothing harder than forgiving ourselves when we know we have done wrong. I suspect that the two are connected, and that the people who judge others most harshly are those who are most unable to forgive themselves. Continue reading
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