Trouble So Hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6w3s_spyKQ Lent approaches.
suffering
We See Them Burnin’ Crosses/See the Flames, Higher and Higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ifY1UV3CM Outside is America. #AdventIsNow #blacklivesmatter
Advent is Eric Garner, dead from a cop’s chokehold.
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
The End is Near – A Sermon for the First Sunday of Advent
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.
Disaster, “Bad Stars,” and Occupy Sandy
Today is the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy's landfall in New York. We continue to suffer the consequences, both materially and immaterially. Sandy lives with us. For a Brooklynite, this is significant. When St. Lydia's was looking for a new space, one real concern was water. "This is the New New York," one of us