This past Sunday was the first Sunday of Advent. I had meant to add to the sermon the lyrics of a song that just happened to come on while I was finishing writing the sermon. I was listening to Johnny Cash’s At Fulsom Prison and he closed out the concert with […]
Monthly Archives: November 2016
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This sermon was preached at St. Bartholomew’s, Nashville, TN on Sunday, November 13, 2016. (NB: The audio is poor.) The previous week Donald J. Trump had been elected as President of the United States. Proper 28 (33) (November 13, 2016) Karl Marx famously said, [History] “repeats itself, first as tragedy, […]
This year, after nearly 20 years as both an faculty member and an academic administrator, I am on my first-ever academic leave and, as readers of the blog know, I am working my book on suffering and grace. But two months ago I was contacted and asked if I would consider […]