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Exhibit A: The Prickly Bits on the Long Arc of History
by Abigail Hastings
January 29, 2012
Our dad was a biblical scholar. In his study, his holy of holies, he had two pictures on the wall: Jeremiah, his favorite prophet, and Hank Aaron, his favorite baseball player. You might say there’s no better representation of the Bible than that—Jeremiah, the curmudgeonly old neighbor, tried to get people to behave, which they won’t, which forced him to be the prophet of doom and gloom; and Hank Aaron, the embodiment of New Testament optimism of “running with perseverance the race set before us” and “fighting the good fight, finishing the race, and keeping the faith.”
The Desire of my Desire
by Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper
January 22, 2012
You probably know the story of the pastor who lied to his congregation about what he did on his day off. He told them that each week he went to a nearby town to serve the poor but in truth he went to play a leisurely 18 holes of golf.
Resurrection City
by Rev. Michael Ellick
January 15, 2012
I’d like to offer something a little different this morning, for those in the room who, like myself, were not alive or old enough to understand what was going on in the first part of 1968. A little history lesson: in the last six months before he died, Martin Luther King had been planning an all-out, go-for-broke campaign, which he believed could be his last. It was called the “Poor People’s Campaign,” and it was supposed to be a kind of second phase of the civil rights movement.
Write the Vision , Make it Plain
by Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper
January 09, 2012
I am adding a phrase to the text today. Write the vision, yes. Make it Plain, yes. And tend the frame. Write the Vision, TEND THE FRAME, and make it plain. Why do I insert, “Tend the Frame”? I do so because many of us know where we are trying to go. But we don’t’ know how to get there. I am going to argue today that tending the frame is the how.
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