Faith communities can be a “safe place for uncomfortable conversations.” For example, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, many congregations have embarked on a conversation about race, or gun violence, or stereotypes and profiling, or any of the host of issues underlying that situation. The topics are uncomfortable because they make us confront our basic assumptions and unconscious prejudices. But being willing to talk about them is the beginning of broadening our understanding, the first step to ever having the world be different. With whom can you have “uncomfortable conversations”?
One: God of many names and faces, we have come together for a little while; some to worship, some to lay down burdens, some to find a moment of rest.
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We have said, “Your word is a lamp for our feet, a light for our path.” Sometimes it seems more like a flickering candle.
Eternal fury fires the saints,
who shake and rattle, push and shove,
who challenge every bland excuse,
who seek for justice, work for love.
