The modern commitment to racial profiling is so deep and so engrained. We can’t even read the scriptures without imposing our racial categories and biases on the stories of those who have gone before us in faith.
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Sermon: Sunday, August 11, 2013: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Texts: Isaiah 1:1,10-20 + Psalm 50:1-8,22-23 + Hebrews 11:1-3,8-16 + Luke 12:32-40 Fifty years ago next month, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the tragic occasion to deliver a eulogy at the funeral service for three of the four little girls killed in the bombing of 16th St. Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, August 11, 2013: Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost