Is your stole draped over your shoulders or tied around your neck? That’s a pseudo-serious question for all the pastor types in our Baptist world — and even for the laypeople. If you don’t know what a stole is, well …. I think we take ourselves too seriously. We need to laugh more, especially in church. Will Rogers is credited with the saying “If you can’t laugh at your religion then it’s not true religion.” That’s actually worth thinking about!
Our world is so full of terrible, sad and painful events. Just a quick look at the news is enough to make us all depressed if we paid just a little attention. Many of us who care about the world rage against this machine of evil, and commit ourselves to incredibly important movements — crazy things like the Kingdom of God. There are so many evils that we rightly need to confront: racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, human trafficking, payday lending, the list goes on and on and on. Every one of these evils deserves our attention and our seriousness.
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