As the sun set on a warm October day, the Rev. Lora Andrews posed a question to her small congregation: “What systems today would have Jesus flipping tables?”
Immigration raids, said one attendee. Health care costs, said another.
“Billionaires,” said a third. “Tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? He would not stand for that.”
The query was a reference to the biblical moment, Andrews said, when Jesus, angered by greed, overthrew the tables of the moneychangers. It was also an opportunity for Andrews, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, to focus her small but growing flock on the ways that their new congregation can be an oasis of progressive values.
