Jesus makes it hard to be a Christian (Luke 14:25-33)
The problem many preachers face when trying to preach without fear or favor is Jesus himself.
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Jesuit priest and poet Daniel Berrigan burned draft records in 1968 in Catonsville, Maryland, to protest the war in Vietnam. He was joined by his brother Phil and seven others—the Catonsville Nine. Ordered to prison, Berrigan chose not to report. He went on the lam, calling himself “a fugitive from injustice.” His actions sent shock waves through the religious establishment by implicating the church in the antiwar movement. The Berrigan brothers made the cover of Time, both wearing their clerical collars, casting their action in what Bill Wylie Kellermann called “the poetics of liturgy.”
