The Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD | Revelation 6:9-11 and Luke 6:43-45- from “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year W, Proper 24″“Where do you stand? . . . I know where Jesus would stand. . . . He stood in so much solidarity that he stood with the dying and died himself. And in his dying, he destroyed death and took away its power. . . . He cried out life from the grave. And when he came back again to stand with the living and the dying, Jesus chose a woman, very much like Rizpah, to be the first preacher of his gospel and the apostle to the apostles. Jesus stands with us in life and in death, his and ours. . . . Where do you stand church? Don’t tell me, show me. Show me your fruit, good fruit, bad fruit, strange fruit.” – The Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD