Pastors are always having to decide what to do. In our day of political turmoil, especially, touching as it does on a plethora of deeply meaningful moral concerns many of us feel that we need to do something, and if we don’t, our parishioners as well as internet pundits press their agenda upon us. Being wise and thoughtful in our response is required, but often not easy. And sometimes the wisest action to take may be no action at all. There’s wisdom in considering the power inherent in what can be called “the inertia of the ordinary.”

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EPISODE NOTES

Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

Psalm 11:3

Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (United States:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007).

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Cullen Murphy, “No, Really, Are We Rome?”,

Matthew 16:18

Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries (United States: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997).

Frederick Niedner, “Author Walter Wangerin’s many lives and words”, Christian Century, August 24, 2021.

Podcast music provided by Cool Hand Luke and used with permission.
Intro: “Holy Vanguard” / Lyrics
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