We hold inside ourselves the impossible contrast of preciousness in a world that does not value any living thing, of righteousness imputed to us and not earned or earnable, of the hope of eternal life even as our earthly lives are shaped by hate that kills and indifference that allows the weak to die.
sermon: “if you want it”
Death is over—if we want it. Jesus is Lord even of death and has pulled its stinger out. An absurd claim then as now, yet every one of Jesus’ disciples, the first ones Mary Magdalene told, died for it. Because it was true, and because there was power in it.
on truth
A core American value, a secondary but important supporting piece of the mythos, is that telling the truth in the face of consequences is valuable and efficacious.
NOR ANY OTHER CREATED THING 