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Power to the People (Women’s Rights Remix)
Power to the People “Turn it up! Turn it up! Power to the people, y’all!” –Public Enemy, Power to the People By now you have heard of the class-action suit against Wal-Mart and this week’s decision by the Supreme Court to throw out the case. The case made news in two very important ways. First,…
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Drop it like it’s hot?
In 2008, we were # 1. In 2009, we became #2. In 2010, we dropped to #3 in the world. In just two years, we went from playing world leader to catch up with China and Germany in the alternative energy market. As Gov. Jennifer Granholm highlights in this piece for the Huffington Post. Personally,…
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Hearing Jesus: my manifesto
The most profound thing Jesus ever taught wasn’t something he said. It is something he did. He split his time with his followers and took on a different posture for each group. And of course, there are three groups: The Needy Jesus gave his greatest gifts to those most in need of it: his time,…
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The federal budget is not the same as your family’s budget
Of course there is a lot that is the same. Both have income and expenses, set by annual budgets. Both are deeply affected by the stock market and other investments. In this simple way, we can all pretend we are in the same boat. But the truth is much different. First, unlike the average family,…
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Seperate and Unequal: income inequality in the U.S.
Some have spent the better part of the last thirty years describing the dramatic economic shift toward the greater concentration of wealth in the ultra-wealthy, and the adverse effect this has had on the average American. Some have even chosen to mock this concern in recent years, suggesting that “redistribution of wealth” is something to…
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No Retaliation
My sermon for Proper 7A (yesterday) is up here. It deals with our culture of retaliation and Jesus’s encouragement to see another alternative; an alternative that we have trouble seeing because we are so committed to violence and retaliation. I thought it was a little spicy. What do you think?
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Blessed (Beatitudes)
Epiphany 4A | Matthew 5:1-12 [Note: the original sermon was preached from sparse notes. What follows is a fleshing out of those notes as best as I can.] GOD of Hope and Wonder, you gave us Jesus as Messiah and Lord. Open our hearts to love as he loves, our imaginations to dream as he…
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Keep Dreaming
It seemed like a bad dream. A little over a month ago, I was checking my e-mail and I came across a strange alert: Glenn Beck was co-opting MLK. Not sure what this meant, I took a look at a response that was written for Sojournors by Ruth Hawley-Lowry that stirred in me a righteous…