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Tag Archives: Judaism
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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Sermon: International, multicultural, multilingual communities
When Peter receives his vision and Paul is sent to the Gentiles, the church becomes an international, multicultural, multilingual community. Pentecost tells us that even before Gentiles were involved, the Jesus movement understood Judaism to be an international, multicultural, multilingual community. Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 2:1-21, internationalism, Judaism, multiculturalism, multilingualism, Pentecost, Year of Luke
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Sermon: Hannah sings a new song
As we remember the anniversary of Kristallnacht and grieve the murder of worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue we remember that we Christians are the younger sisters and brothers of the Jewish people and we should offer them the love and respect that older siblings deserve. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Samuel 1:4-20, Hannah, Hebrew Scriptures, Judaism, Mary, reading the Bible
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