The week between June 17th and June 24th in the Lutheran Christian tradition is a week with a strong emphasis on prophecy. Prophesying is the act of proclaiming God’s vision for humanity to other people, often when those other people may be diverging from God’s intention. Thus, prophecy can make us feel judged, discomfited, and convicted. And may arouse resistance to change and even anger at the prophet, the one bearing the hard message that God has for us when things are g

Have you ever heard of Jehu Jones? Jehu Jones, was an emancipated slave from South Carolina, who came north to New York in 1832 to be...

Fundamental to our Christian understanding of God is that God is not capricious or discriminatory. While human systems, institutions, and...