Blog - Maundy Thursday

Holy Thursday hot take:

God said to Moses, “Remove your sandals, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

“As I listened to their emotional testimonies, I reflected on the human superpower that is empathy, the superpower that racism tries to choke off. Empathy led these innocent bystanders to wrack themselves with guilt following Floyd’s killing.“ Heather McGhee
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” Matthew 13:34
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Christians are suffering a crisis of the First Commandment: that’s the one that goes, “You shall have no other gods but me.”

Most recently, it was White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer who claimed that Hitler “didn’t even use chemical weapons…on his own people.”

This past week, I celebrated my birthday.

I have Reinhold Niebuhr on the mind these days.

The below appeared in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader newspaper today.  I’m reposting it here, because it’s a Holy Saturday-ish set of musings.

Next Monday we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.