Give to God What Is God’s: Call to Worship and Benediction
Call to worship [from Genesis 1, Psalm 8, Matthew 22:15-22] One: In the beginning, God created humankind in God’s own …
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Let Our Hearts, Like Doors, Open Wide: A Commissioning Reflection
Readings: Genesis 1:26-27 and “North,” by Sleeping At Last Here we are, back where we started the summer twelve weeks …
Stories of Resistance: A Reflection on Genesis 1
In the beginning, there were the old gods. Apsu, god of freshwater, and Tiamat, goddess of salt waters, mingled without …
Whose Image?
So when Jesus says “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s,” I’d like you to consider that he’s saying not only that Caesar is not God, but that what Caesar owns is worthless. That he’s still telling us across all these years that anything that impoverishes, anything that divides and denigrates, anything that suggests that one person is better than another, is idolatry.
