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Monthly Archives: October 2025
Sermon: Do not choose trauma
We can divide the world into Us and Them, Exiles and Babylonians, Jews and Samaritans, or we can recognise that we are all human beings who have been created by the one God to live on this one fragile and wonderful planet. We know which choice Jesus, who told us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, wants us to make. Amen. Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Jeremiah, Bosnia-Herzegovina, chosen trauma, Elizabeth Boase, genocide, Jeremiah 29:1 and 4-7, Kosovo, Norman G. Finkelstein, Prophet Jeremiah, Serbia, Serbian nationalism, The Holocaust Industry: Reflection on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, trauma, Trauma Theories: Refractions in the Book of Jeremiah, Vamik D. Volkan
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Sermon: No one deserves this
We are told in excruciating detail of the suffering Daughter Zion is experiencing. As Daughter Zion complains, ‘The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom’. (Lamentations 4:6) Nothing that Judah had done could justify the starvation, exile, and death her people are experiencing. Another way of saying it might be, no possible war crime can ever justify genocide. Continue reading
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Tagged Amos, Babylonian Exile, Book of Lamentations, death, exile, Ezekiel, Gaza, Hosea, Isaiah, J. Cheryl Exum, Jeremiah, Jewish Voice for Peace, Judaism, JVP, lament, Lamentations 1:1-6, Liturgy, Palestine, prophetic pornography, sexual assault, siege, starvation, Tisha B’Av
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