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...
On evil and the virus

On evil and the virus

People–even news magazines–often say that a virus learns to evade or outsmart the drugs designed to kill it. This is a false attribution of intention and intelligence. Viruses have neither. They have one program: more of myself!

What’s A Human For?

We are so divided, they say. Blue and red, conservative and liberal, urban and rural pulled under separate enclaves like twelve-year old boys and girls at the edges of a dance floor; opposing sides never speaking. Laid on this story of division, of course, are some heart-warming ones about this tow n that is managing a spirit of comity, or that organization hosting hard conversations. The big scheme the media have latched onto is that all are contributing to social disorder because we are all stuck in our own minds, in our own tribes, unwilling to listen or learn, or to see the other’s side.