Today is a special audio Sunday Musing.

This past week, I was at Theology Beer Camp, an event hosted by Homebrewed Christianity and my friend, Tripp Fuller. It was three days of lectures and panels, great conversations and intense theological discussions.

Most of the people there were ex-evangelicals, theological misfits, the religiously-traumatized, those at the edges of institutional church, and people who find themselves spiritually homeless. Tripp asked me if I’d preach the “sending sermon” at the end. I almost turned down the request, but I’m glad I didn’t.

Today’s Sunday Musings is that sermon — “Pray Always, Trust the Work of Justice,” based on Luke 18:1-8, the gospel text assigned for October 16 in the lectionary. The sermon was directed specifically to the beer campers, but it is universal in prophetic hope.

You are invited to this final session of Theology Beer Camp. There’s no other gathering quite like it.

Luke 18:1-8

Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, `Grant me justice against my opponent.' For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, `Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

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