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In light of the two grand jury decisions to not indict the police officers who killed two young black men, I'm posting tonight the text version of the sermon I preached at St. Lydia's a few weeks ago. This is, after all, the first week of Advent. #blacklivesmatter (You can listen to the recording here). I'm so

I preached this sermon at St. Lydia's in Brooklyn, NY on the First Sunday of Advent on the evenings of Sunday, November 9 and Monday, November 10. This recording is from the latter. The title is "The End is Near: Finding Our Voices in the Wilderness of Advent." https://soundcloud.com/bleak-theology/the-end-is-near-finding-our-voices-in-the-wilderness-of-lent The Scripture is Jeremiah 33.14-16 NRSV.

St. Lydia’s is a dinner church. It is an exercise in radical hospitality and a place where I find community here in New York City, a city both inhumane and all too human. St. Lydia’s is grounded in the Christian story of life, death, and resurrection. It is a community that welcomes each stranger as