While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.
Season after Pentecost | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 82; (Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Psalm 25:1-10;) Colossians 1:1-14; Luke 10:25-37
Christians struggle to be prophetic in the world. Amos could help.
The prophets God sends among us are often vilified, distorted, and silenced.
White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.
We are trained to see ourselves as the hero.
Can we behave ourselves into love?