HeyJaredGod, Grits, and Graves
Episcopal priest trying to make sense of ancient religion and modern life.
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Black People Don’t Hang Themselves (opens the original)
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Sermon for the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Matthew 21:23-32In my hometown, there’s a beautiful creek, echoing bluffs, fall leaves that almost rival the ones up here. But, that same beautiful town had its race riots back in the early 1900s, became a sundown town the state energy company wouldn’t send its black technicians to, and bore the nickname of “Most Racist Town in America.” That lovely body of water running through town is called Crooked Creek. I had a tshirt as a kid from the annua
What Radicalized Me (opens the original)
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Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost: Exodus 16:2-15; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16There’s a trend going around where people respond to the question “What radicalized you?” It’s a tongue-in-cheek way of calling out the shift in what “radical” now means. And while you may expect all these radicals to say things like The Communist Manifesto or The Anarchist’s Cookbook, what you get instead are things like “Jesus loves the little children,” “don’t believe everything you see on T
Forgiveness as Oppression, Forgiveness as Liberation (opens the original)
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Sermon for the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Matthew 18:21-35When I was in middle school, there was this kid that really got my goat. Oh man, I hated that kid. He was such a jerk, and things between us got nastier and nastier. One day, I was sitting in the lunchroom, and he walked by carrying his lunch tray and bumped into me from behind. I couldn’t contain myself any longer, and I jumped up madder than a wet hen and punched him right in the back of the head. I’m not proud of that, not at al
Ancient Pharaoh, Modern Israel (opens the original)
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Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Exodus 12:1-14 & Romans 13:8-14“Any commandment can be summed up in this word, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’’ For those of you who don’t love Paul, Jesus says the whole thing boils down to “Love God, and love your neighbor.” Our entire theological conception of the universe comes down to God Incarnate saying that loving our neighbors matters. Or, as Archbishop Desmond TuTu put it: “I am human because you are human. My humanity is caught up in
Don’t Mess With Dolly (opens the original)
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Sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Romans 12:9-21Y’all know I love me a drag queen. You may’ve even heard me mention one or two or a hundred. In Bible Study last week, we heard the wisdom of Jinkx Monsoon. When the computer got hinky, I quoted Bianca Del Rio: “not today, Satan!” I’ve got a collection of saints’ candles on my grandpa’s old Bible depicting all manner of beat faces and hair high enough to tickle the Pearly Gates. But my lifelong favorite drag queen, her candle sits d
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