Sermons
He lost it. She’s losing it. Who wants to do that? To lose control. To lose your temper. To have an ugly cry. I certainly don’t want to lose it. Though sometimes I do.
Peter seems to lose it when Jesus says his mission will involve suffering and death. That’s not what a Messiah does, Peter thinks. We need you to come in and overthrow Rome. Show your political and military might. We need a political strongman.
The wounds we’ve carved into the Earth do not happen in a vacuum, the wounds leech into issues of global politics, gender, and race. The pollution of water and air in the United States often coincides with red-lined neighborhoods - those are neighborhoods which the American government designated to be ghettos for black and brown people. The genocides in Palestine and Congo are rooted in a desire to tear minerals like Cobalt from the Earth, to possess or destroy or pillage land. Hawaiians call the land the ʻāina. And their connection to the land, just like all indigenous peoples, is essential to their culture, spirituality, and freedom movements.
