Sermons from Lyndale
Sabbath and the Practice of Right-Sizing
nd for me, part of the power of Empire and dis-orientation that happens is that my ego gets all out of whack. And terror or despair sets in… “Oh, my God, it’s all up to me. I have to figure out how I can march in every march and sign every petition and meet with every legislator and be at every meeting” and on and on. Or, alternatively, “Oh, my God, there is nothing that I can do. Nothing I can think of will make any difference. We are doomed.”
White Supremacy: Not in My Name, Not in My God’s Name
White supremacy is like an onion, so many layers that are so painful to really look at. There is the most obvious version that carries torches, but the system benefits all of us white folks…
Practicing Enoughness
One could play the same imagination game with so many of the so-called issues that vex our country, that have popped up in headlines just this week. What could our country look like if immigration, healthcare and policing all operated out of a paradigm of practicing communal enoughness?