Sermons from July 2025
Bias Towards the Margins
The ancient Hebrew prophet Amos and the contemporary Roman Catholic activist Dorothy Day both emphasized a bias toward the margins – “a preferential option for the poor.” Because the economic, political, and social systems of the world too often fail to reflect God’s love and care for all people, Amos and Day believe that God steps into the gap between the dominant culture and historical marginalized communities, calling us into the margins. Worship online with thetable.live. CCLI #805699 / CCLI…
Collective Evil
This week we take our third step along the path of the prophetic tradition. Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, suggests that the vocation of the prophet is focused on unmasking collective evil or “social sin.” So, more than critiquing individuals, the prophets critique their culture and society, exposing what has been hidden. The prophets, far ahead of their time, learned that it is social sin that destroys civilization and…
Critical Mass
Pastor Jorge’s message, Critical Mass, will hold the scripture in conversation with the lives and legacies of the Hebrew prophet Hosea and the contemporary prophet Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero. Rohr affirms that “God’s message and messengers—and often the hearers—all tend to be outliers to ‘the way everybody thinks’… The whole group never gets the message, but a smaller group (the ‘remnant’) carries the love and hope of restoration after… the trials and tribulations the people endure”. The prophets taught us…
The Path of the Prophet
Richard Rohr in his book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, describes the path of the prophetic tradition by bringing into conversation the inspired, and sometime eccentric, prophets of the Hebrew Bible with the contemporary voices of people who have embodied this path in the world today. Rohr plots this path as one that moves from “righteous anger against injustice, grief for the world’s suffering, and finally, grace-filled love for everyone and everything.” Over the…
