Tag Archives: Hate
Sermon: There is nothing we cannot say to God
Too often throughout history the church has been on the side of the colonisers, not the colonised; the slave owners, not the slaves; the rich, not the poor; adults, not children; men, not women; straight people, not LGBTIQ+ people; paedophiles, not the victims of clerical sexual abuse; and so on and so forth. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Babylonian Exile, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fall of Jerusalem, Hate, lament, Lamentations 1:1-6, Psalm 137, Walter Brueggemann
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Sermon: A psalm of hate
Another gift of the Psalter is the permission it gives us to share everything with God, even those emotions of which we are ashamed. The psalms show us that there is nothing that human beings can think, feel, say, or do, that we need to hide from God. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, biblical interpretation, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hate, Psalm 137, reading the Bible, revenge, The Psalter
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