you see i love this place i've grown to know
& i know you would touch us with a ten-foot pole, because we're north americans! Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 : Prayer: Lord, may the words of my lips and the meditations of all our hearts be part of your yoke, which you have invited us to take up. Amen Happy Fourth of July! It is that holiday where we celebrate our independence, where we celebrate that story of the United States. Have you noticed, though, that the story of what the United States is has been contested? Take your pick of one of the talking heads we have nationally broadcasted. Many of these figures have a different idea of what, exactly, the story of the United States is. There is, apparently, a lot of competition for the story of the United States. Why? Why is that? Why the confusion? Honestly, I don’t think it is that hard to figure out why there is this confusion about it… A lot of this confusion has to do with the same tensions we have in ourselves. Remember last week? Last we...