I was invited to be one of the preachers for the Last Seven Words Service at Church on the Hill AME Zion Church, NYC. I took the fifth phrase: “I am thirsty.” After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” A jarContinue reading “thirsting for dangerous memory: a good friday sermon”
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the compassion of the christ: taking christian theology seriously for the sake of society
In God of the Oppressed, Dr. James H. Cone shares a story about a white preacher in the South who encouraged his black congregants in his sermon to follow the new Jim Crow laws through an eschatological narrative. The white preacher declared that in the middle of Heaven there will be a partition separating blacks fromContinue reading “the compassion of the christ: taking christian theology seriously for the sake of society”
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