Preached today at Churchwide Chapel.
You can read it here:
“You are Anna. I am Anna. Her song is our song.
Her song is,
“Lift every voice and sing, till Earth and Heaven ring…”
Her song is,
“Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim…”
Her song is the Psalm Jesus uttered from the cross. Her song is the cries of anger and desperation and pain on the streets of Memphis, of Minneapolis, of St. Louis, of the girls in Iran, of children in our schools, of the teenage Mary predicting that the world was about to turn.
Is about to turn. About to turn, turn, turn, to every season turn, turn, turn…
Justice is not the Gospel, but the Gospel calls for justice, forgiveness, and a powerless love triumphing over loveless power.
We are all empowered to sing the Gospel song of powerless love triumphing over loveless power that we hear and know and have written on our heads, our tender hands, our hearts as this Jesus is presented to us over and over again in the face of the stranger, in the face in the mirror, in the face of those the world refuses to look in the face…”
Reluctant Xtian 