When we think of saints, we typically think of their virtue. Virtue, of course, implies agency. But Trayvon Martin didn’t choose any of this. My guess is that he and his family would rather have him back than to be honored as a saint. I imagine they would trade everything and more to have him back. When we look at …
The Gospel or the Gun
I’m sure we are all used to the rhetorical pattern following a mass shooting. Thoughts and prayers are offered, people suggest all kinds of possible causes and explanations, then we do nothing. I’m interested in that middle stage because it might suggest what our mindset is that results in the final moribund stage. The way that we talk about gun …
The Hosanna Resistance (A Sermon for Palm Sunday)
(Audio on SoundCloud.) There is nothing I can say to you today that will match the power of what we saw yesterday. I am not Emma Gonzalez or Edna Chavez or Naomi Wadler. I’m not Chloe Young or Waed Alhayek, two of the young women who led the Dallas March for Our Lives. I don’t have their courage. I don’t …