Anchored in Psalm 96, Chris opens with the image of a half-acre yard teeming with hundreds of living creatures — owls, raccoons, a white squirrel named Gandalf — and asks what it means that God made every single one of us in His image with equal worth. Through a jarring memory of a teenage night in Savannah, where a girl named Sara whispered "my home is a little wild — this is not who I am" before walking into a house filled with artifacts celebrating slavery, Chris challenges every listener to look at their own "wedding pictures" and honestly ask who is in them. Drawing on Paul's letter to the Galatians, Acts 17, and John's Revelation, he calls the whole Church — Catholic, Protestant, every tradition — to deliberately cross into the parts of God's creation they have been unconsciously leaving out.

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