If Jeremiah sounds a bit paranoid, it is because everybody really is against him.
Season after Pentecost | 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; (Isaiah 58:9b-14; Psalm 103:1-8;) Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17
Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
Isaiah’s two challenges go hand in hand.
So much of human religiosity comes down to a hoax we perpetrate on God.
Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.
Self-realization is possible only in relation to a reality beyond the self.