Archive for January, 2005

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

This is, of course, the Sunday in the extended holiday weekend for Martin Luther
King Day tomorrow. And so we are singing hymns like “Precious Lord, Take My
Hand,” as unusual as the theology may be from our usual fare, and “We Shall
Overcome” — hymns from the heritage of black America that King’s memory
invokes. I want to [...]

Thinking of Hospitality, In a Dire Time

Sunday, January 2nd, 2005

This year, New Years festivities everywhere were less festive, coming as they did
so soon after the somber, almost unimaginably awful news from Southeast Asia.
I planned this day to talk about hospitality, and I will, but I’m going to get there
by way of the catastrophe and its aftermath, with some theologizing along the way, this
being church, [...]