We need some crazy Christians. Sane, sanitized Christianity is killing us. That may have worked once upon a time, but it won’t carry the Gospel anymore. We need some crazy Christians like Mary Magdalene and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Christians crazy enough to believe that God is real and that Jesus lives. Crazy enough to follow the radical way of the Gospel. Crazy enough to believe that the love of God is greater than all the powers of evil and death. Crazy enough to believe, as Dr. King often said, that though “the moral arc of the universe is long, it bends toward justice.” We need some Christians crazy enough to believe that children don’t have to go to bed hungry; that the world doesn’t have to be the way it often seems to be; that there is a way to lay down our swords and shields, down by the riverside; that as the slaves used to sing, “There’s plenty good room in my Father’s kingdom,” because every human being has been created in the image of God, and we are all equally children of God and meant to be treated as such.
I find it more sad than ironic that a sermon which obviously takes great pride in the transgressive option is so full of predictable cliches and so lacking in any real substance. And I thought this guy was supposed to be a good preacher. Perhaps the best they can come up with these days, when TEC has become, frankly, so incredibly uninteresting.
David,
No, he is not the best TEC could come up with at GC. I can think of a couple of priests and bishops from South Carolina who could have give the deputies and bishops of GC a real sermon. Alas, they were not asked. This is typical of TEC.
Although there are people who admire Bp. Michael Curry’s ‘style’ in preaching, the ‘substance’ of his selection has more to do his prominent opposition to the recently passed North Carolina amendment dealing with marriage.
This is a typical sermon from Bishop Curry. Lots of energy, something that sounds like the faith but it really focused on political issues and “social justice” as defined in liberal political circles.
Crazy Christians are the ones running TEC right into the ground. Yeah…We need more of that.