About three weeks ago, an article ran in the New York Times about the dress code in the US Senate.
I know, you may well be sitting out there thinking “I can’t believe she is going to talk about that!” With the horrors that have been unfolding over the past week in southern Israel and the Gaza strip, and the humanitarian crises that are emerging, not to mention the possibility of broader conflict erupting in that part of the world, why bother with a topic that is seemingly so trivial?
Why dig into this troublesome parable we just heard from Matthew, a parable that seems not only irrelevant, but in the end, pretty disturbing? Why, when we are witnessing the worst that humans do to one another, why spend pulpit time talking about what people wear?
I am just going to ask you to bear with me, and trust that by the time we finish struggling through Jesus’ story about a host, a banquet, and an underdressed guest, we will have more of an idea of what it means to be faithfully present in the midst of this terrible situation...(read more)
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