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Mourning the Temple of Our Ancestors: A Tisha B’Av Sermon
You've probably noticed that there's something different about our readings today. (See collect and lessons) Our propers commemorate the destruction of the Temple observed on Tisha B’Av, the ninth...
View ArticleA Lamentation For Our Daughters
This is a wailing; and it shall be wailed. The women of the world shall wail it. Over Nubia and all its nations they shall wail it, says the SOVEREIGN God. Ezekiel 32:16 My Lament My eyes grieve...
View ArticleCall the Wailing Women to Weep for Us
Death is in the house. My ancestors sang it like this: ‘Soon one morning, death come creepin’ in my room, ‘Soon one morning, death come creepin’ in my room, ‘Soon one morning, death come creepin’ in my...
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A Lament for Violence
Holy Wednesday Sermon In the Name of God who hears our cries, bear our tears on her wings and empowers us to dry each other’s tears. Amen. Today is a day for lament, even though we will celebrate the...
View ArticleA New/Old Psalm of Lament
If you don’t mind, I’m going to take some liberties with Psalm 13. How long Holy One? Will you forget us forever? How long will you let them kill us? How long will you let them deny us justice? How...
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Seasons of Sorrow
Reconstruction of the Herodian Temple in Jerusalem at the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, on the Jewish calendar marks a series of sorrows, most notably the...
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Lament for Jerusalem and Genocidal Violence
Luke 13:31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Go! And get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘See here, I am casting...
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Jonathan Price Was Murdered and this Won’t Be the Last Time
A psalm of rage and lament to the tune of black women’s tears. This won’t be the last time a black person has to tell the world that they have been trained to demonize black men. This won’t be the...
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Jonathan Price Was Murdered and this Won’t Be the Last Time
.tb_counter_1 .wpb_wrapper {font-size:;font-weight:;line-height:;color:;} A psalm of rage and lament to the tune of black women’s tears. This won’t be the last time a black person has to tell the world...
View ArticleA Lamentation for the Daughters of Afghanistan
I am devastated by the news coming out of Afghanistan, the wholesale abduction and rape of girls and women, forced illiteracy, poverty, slaughter, endless war. Today I lament. First in the words of...
View ArticlePentecost 6
It wasn’t always like this… It was better when… The previous generation… In those days… Once upon a time… Much of the impetus for the production of scripture was looking back like the Sankofa bird....
View ArticlePentecost 16
The lessons this week are marked by lamentation. One might wish to move some of these lessons around in the event of national catastrophe or even the remembrance of 9/11. But at the same time, on any...
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