Hi Cottagers.

Sending you the audio of my sermon from this past Sunday preached at Asbury UMC in Prairie Village, Kansas. It was based on my recent (and widely shared) essay “Holy Thursday Revolution” and John 20:19-31.

Remember: TABLE - trial - cross - tomb - TABLE

Enjoy!

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on.

We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.

It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we make women.

At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.

Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children. They laugh with us at our poor falling-down selves and as we put ourselves back together once again at the table. . .— Joy Harjo, read the entire poem HERE

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