August 29, 2025
Good evening,
Since the recent election of Donald Trump, I have been listening to ” Convocation Unscripted “. It is a podcast hosted by Robbie Jones, Diana Butler Bass, Jemar Tisby and Kristin Du Mez. They are all still hopeful for their country, the USA, and its future. They are also realistic. Robbie said a few days ago that Washington D.C. is under military occupation. The soldiers are now carrying guns. He has young children and they have to walk past the occupying force to get to school. It is so unreal.
They are all Christians, and are teachers, writers and scholars. They are trying to tell as many people as possible about the dangers that their country is presently in. They take interviews, book launches, sermons to tell their stories of the inhumanity of their present government.The country seems to be at war with the most vulnerable, the poor, the disabled, the gender-diverse and the immigrant. In Jesus’ parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25, Jesus calls us to stand up for all of these people. This parable was the last one Jesus told in Matthew’s gospel, so it might have been these words that finally got him arrested by the authorities. And he was executed.
Please pray for these four courageous people as they continue to proclaim the good news to their world that has turned upside-down in a bad way. They are out front and honest. Please pray for the Church, as it finds its way to be faithful here in Canada as well.
Pray that we never forget Gaza. AMEN
Fred
black and white shadows
crush humanity’s freedom
am I complicit ? MPL 2025
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