All the Assembly Kept Silence
Download a PDF of this sermon Amos 7:7-15 • Acts 15:6-12 In 2008, a fragment of a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ got clipped into the news cycle for some days. To the shock and awe of millions, that preacher, who was pastor...Power in a Promise
Think about this. If making predictions is what God’s Word is all about, then human freedom is fake. But the prophets weren’t making predictions. They were making promises. You can bet your life on the difference.
How You Function When You Can’t Breathe
There is so much that is broken down in American society, in one sense it is easy to understand why so many are in denial. People are overwhelmed. Yet the denial is dangerous. Denial that racism bedevils us. Denial that police brutality is systemic. Denial of...One thing after another
Harlem’s Amsterdam News recently published an op-ed which I wrote with Stephanie Low, head of the Sierra Club here in New York. It’s about stopping the passage of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new trade deal which, as I read it, literally and legally turns...Work and Worth
As Labor Day comes tomorrow—and despite the fact that on this holiday in America, the interests of laboring people are not much heard above the songs of summer’s end—let us acknowledge, in obedience to virtues of compassion, courage, and truthfulness what some will not: The gulf between the rich and the rest is becoming so great that it is threatening the whole of our civilization.
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