Sermons from Lyndale
The Faithful Samaritan
Who will you choose to be in this moment? Will you be faithful to the pain inside you that can also teach you to be faithful to the pain inside Black bodies?
Not in my name
How is that that we know in our bones that the New Jerusalem, the utopic city of God described in our text from that anti-imperial, sci-fi –esque book of the bible called Revelation, will be filled with people expressing all their fabulous gender diversity and others would call our trans* and genderqueer beloveds abominations not even allowed in?
Earth Week: The Spiritual Practice of Vegetarianism
I was born a vegetarian. But sometimes I wonder, “Why do I stay a vegetarian?” I see cookbooks, chicken looks good. I hear my friends saying, “Bacon is so delicious.” But why do I stay a vegetarian? Well, I think for me, it has something to do with the Circle of Life. Because humans, sometimes we get a little too big for our britches and we think we’re smarter than everything else and we overbreed animals we kill for food and we poach the animals that usually would be predator so that the Circle of Life is chopped up and uneven.