Sermons from Lyndale
September 25, 2022 Sermon by Rev. Joann Conroy
Larger, freer, and more loving grace
Particularly for historically white churches grappling with racialized trauma and the call toward reparations, there are fragments of 1 Timothy that speak into the wreckage of delusion, domination, and violence that have so marked churches past and present. Like they marked Paul’s past.
Invited to the table of the disabled God
In the biblical imagination, resurrection is finally about justice. Resurrection is restoration. Extending the invitation to those systematically kept marginalized, impoverished, and indebted to others is a socio-political act of justice, of restoring the body.