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Posted by request: a sermon on the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, July 21, 2013, following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Treyvon Martin case, based on Luke 10:38-42. GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE, FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND FROM OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS THE CHRIST. Steve Charleston, an Episcopal Priest and the former…
Read MoreGRACE TO YOU AND PEACE, FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND FROM OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS THE CHRIST. What will I see and what will I wear. What will I see when I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror of the world? A nine year old boy gunned down in a…
Read MorePastors of the South Central Conference had a conversation about resolutions for our upcoming assembly meeting. There was an expressed desire to address the issue of gun violence in some way, which led to the drafting the resolution below. It’s too late for this congregation to submit it without a special meeting, but it can…
Read MoreFreedom is not free. Liberties have costs. Economists calculate the cost of decisions in terms of the trade-offs we make, and there’s one cost we need to consider. What is the cost of our right to keep and bear arms? What is the price or the tax that this liberty exacts from us? The sad…
Read MoreBack in the 1950s the Reverend Otto Schmidt used to tell new residents to the Como Park neighborhood that they needed to do three things: join a church, join a civic group (like the Lions or Rotary or Kiwanis) and join a political party. This was how Christians could live out their life in Luther’s…
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