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What is coming and what is ahead in our country and in our world will need the response of a community steeped not in its own grief and anger, but those who have been healed and made whole in the waters of baptism—who have put on Christ.
Righteousness does not make us better than others, but rather brings us in right alignment with God, just as justice is not punishment, but is about righting the injustices of the world with love, grace and mercy.
Racial Healing Eucharist honoring Lucian Tapiedi and the Martyrs of New Guinea.
I do not pretend that forgiveness is easy or that we can turn it into a law to be commanded. It is simply to say that when we enter into it as a reality that pervades everything, we can become more free, more whole, and at peace.
If, according to Gallup polls, and the Pew Research Center, about 70% of Americans identify as Christians, mirroring the students in my class, then why are so many of us lonely?
Genuine love stretches us. Mercy costs us. Courage asks more of us than we planned to give. The holy road has never been the comfortable one.
Honoring Florence Nightingale, with guest preacher Dr. Tamara Zurakowski.
This tension between the now of our present needs for healing, and the promise of a future reign of God, is at the heart of Jesus’s command earlier in Matthew’s Gospel—in his Sermon on the Mount—that we “love our enemies.”
Jesus experiences a mind-altering change of heart when this nameless Canaanite Woman has the fiercely tender courage to take his insult and transform it into the wisdom of dogs: unconditional love, steadfast loyalty, devoted companionship, boundless forgiveness, and liberating joy.
Much like the sea in this story, we live in a tumultuous time. Whether it be wars, some we started, climate change, or the erosion of our democracy, we can all identify threats to ourselves and those we love. What are followers of Jesus called to do in the midst of this storm? Should we too step out of the boat?
The kingdom of heaven is collective liberation made manifest, One Way of love and justice with many paths. Jesus talks about those many paths in the parables we read today, going from gardener to baker to treasure-seeker to trader to fisher. A world rooted in a God that is one-in-three necessitates diverse and interconnected ways of practicing God’s love and justice.
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