Tag Archives: Lamentations 1:1-6
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: 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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