Faith & Politics Reflections

 FIRST AND MAIN – SUNDAY JUNE 15, 2025   Proverbs 8:1-4:  Does not wisdom call     and understanding raise her voice? 2  On the heights, beside the way,     at the crossroads she takes her stand; 3  beside the gates in front of the town,     at the entrance of the portals she cries out: 4  “To you, O people, I call,     and my cry is to all who live.       I actually prefer the way this passage reads in Eugene Peterson’s The Message :   8:1  Do you hear Lady Wisdom calling?     Can you hear Madame Insight raising her voice? 2  She’s taken her stand at First and Main,     at the busiest intersection. 3  Right in the city square      where the traffic is thickest, she shouts,  4 “You—I’m talking to all of you,     everyone out here on the streets!   ...

 WHEN CONFUSION REIGNS – SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2025   Acts 2:1-21:  “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  2  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where (the disciples) were sitting.  3  Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.  4  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5  Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem.  6  And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.  7  Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?  8  And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?  9  Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and reside...