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A first tonight.\u00a0 A salad made from lettuce I cut from the plants in our kitchen.\u00a0 Enough for two with plenty left on the plants.\u00a0 So, one test of the hydroponics down, a few more to go.\u00a0 I want to produce tomatoes and herbs on a year round basis, while also using the setup to start plants for the outside garden.\u00a0 Flowers, too, would perk up the kitchen and the inside, especially in winter.\u00a0 Slow, steady.\u00a0 Learning as we go.<\/p>\n
Kate has tomorrow off, unexpectedly, so we’re going to go over to NOW fitness and buy a new treadmill.\u00a0 Tres exciting.<\/p>\n
Looks like a couple of good days for outside work Sunday and Monday.\u00a0 I have plenty to do.<\/p>\n
I haven’t said anything here about Rev. Wright and Barrack Obama.\u00a0 I’m with Rev. Wright.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 He comes off like a fruitcake, an angry voice untethered from day to day reality.\u00a0 His sermons are strident, cut deep.\u00a0 His critique of American society as a racist, vicious culture seems to describe a place none of us know.\u00a0 And we don’t.<\/p>\n
Preaching has a long and complicated history.\u00a0 Its strongest and its most dangerous form comes when a minister decides she must speak truth to power.\u00a0 This always, always comes from a particular situation which the minister holds up to the Christian tradition, most often scripture in the Protestant community of which Rev. Wright is a part.\u00a0 The preaching task is never done in the abstract; it is always a spoken word to a people, a spoken word shaped by the scriptural and historical roots of today’s Christian church.\u00a0 When the community to which you speak and from you yourself come have experienced marginilization, unearned disadvantage, then the spoken word will express the truth of God’s justice to the powerful forces aligned against your community.<\/p>\n
This type of preaching is never easy.\u00a0 It costs blood.\u00a0 It often produces pain.\u00a0 Clergy who insist on prophetic preaching, because they feel they can do nothing else, often lose their jobs, get branded as crazy, misguided, idealistic, out of touch.\u00a0 This is just power talking back, trying to press the truth to the margins again, where it can be contained.\u00a0 We, that this those of us in the white\u00a0upper-middle classes do not know what it means to live as marginal persons, bereft of influence, beholden to power.\u00a0 We are the main-stream, the influential, the holders of power.<\/p>\n
Naming truth hurts.\u00a0 But, as Jesus said, the truth shall set you free.\u00a0 But, he might have added, only after a really long painful time.\u00a0 Even so, it doesn’t make the truth any less true.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I never served a congregation as a minister for just this reason.\u00a0 I knew my politics were too radical for a congregation of Presbyterians.\u00a0 The tension and pain would not have had\u00a0 a constructive outcome.\u00a0 Rev. Wright made a different calculation and I support him in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
44\u00a0 bar rises 29.89 0mph SW dewpoint 23\u00a0 Beltane \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent Moon of Growing A first tonight.\u00a0 A salad made from lettuce I cut from the plants in our kitchen.\u00a0 Enough for two with plenty left on the plants.\u00a0 So, one test of the hydroponics down, a few more to go.\u00a0 I want to … Continue reading I’m with Rev. Wright<\/span>