Mike Angell is a priest and community organizer. He is a preacher, writer, dad, and a sometimes frisbee and ukulele player. He likes to hike, ski, listen, and laugh.
The question itself makes me deeply uncomfortable.
I never answered the first question, about whether Jesus called this woman a dog. The question itself makes me deeply uncomfortable. But I think that has to be the case.
Because, when you look through the lens of systemic injustice, there is no denying that the Church, that those of us who claim to follow Jesus have contributed to and benefited from the exploitation of women and people of color.
Jesus looked out on a group of tired, frustrated, oppressed people. He told them, “you get a choice of where to live.” You can stay in this tired frustrated place. Or Jesus said, you can follow me…
Again and again in Genesis, we find the stories of rivals. Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Essau. It’s almost as if the Bible is trying to tell us something about how we relate to one another. And today we enter again the story of Sarah and Hagar.
https://youtu.be/zZdAxGf5MeE Holy Communion UCity · The Rev. Mike Angell: Black Lives Matter To God St. John’s and Anger Twice over the past week my phone has been inundated with texts and tweets and Facebook messages. On Sunday folks were asking, “Do you know St. John’s is on Fire?” On Monday the question came, “Have youContinueContinue reading “Black Lives Matter to God”
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