by jakeowensby | Jul 8, 2017 | grace, Matthew 11:16-30, Proper 9 A
Fifty-six years ago John Lewis used a whites-only restroom in Jackson, Mississippi. Police arrested him and authorities sent him to Parchman Prison. Parchman is the state’s only maximum security prison for men. Lewis entered that restroom to protest racism in America....
by jakeowensby | Jun 30, 2017 | Genesis 22:1-14, grace, Proper 8 A
Imagine that you are surrounded by people who assume that you have to give acceptable sacrifices to the gods—the gods who control harvests and herds, for instance—to keep the gods on their side. If floods or droughts ruin their crops, they assume that the gods have...
