Thanks for the good words and for the critique. T...

2009-11-23T14:05:26.483-05:00

Thanks for the good words and for the critique. That is really important. In the sermon itself I skipped "the Jews" and ended it at handed over...

A few sentences of explanation and a change to "religious collaborators with injustice" would have been a huge improvement.

I assume there are no comments because everyone h...

2009-11-23T09:46:38.382-05:00

I assume there are no comments because everyone has been blown out of the tub.

Fantastic. I love transforming "Christ the King" in all its militant orthodoxy to Cosmic Christ. A transformation indeed.

One teeny tiny criticism ("teeny" in terms of your sermon, significant in other ways): I have become highly sensitive to the anti-semitism in John's Gospel, largely through a couple of encounters with A.J. Levine, (Jewish) professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt, and a very busy lady on the lecture circuit with Crossan, et al.

I have also become sensitive to the less obvious but still there anti-semitism in the rest of the gospels (not so much in Mark). So, if I had been you, I would not have quoted "the Jews" as you did from John, but would have said something like "religious collaborators with Rome" or "collaborators with injustice" or some other phrase that makes it clear we are not talking about a specific religion that disagrees with us, but a way of life, or a way of death/fear that cannot recognize the Cosmic Christ.

Or something along those thought lines.

I am really looking forward to your Advent/Christmas/Epiphany/ Lent, propers with Luke (or any other way you do the rest of Year B).

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Thanks for the good words and for the critique. T...

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