The Immediate Word
Constructing A Platform For Justice
Children's sermon
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Preaching
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Worship
The news cycle during the past two weeks has been dominated by the political conventions -- gatherings at which each major party formally nominated their candidates for president and vice-president while adopting platforms specifying their policy proposals for “making America great.” There was a great deal of speechifying -- much of it containing soaring rhetoric appealing to the virtues embedded in deeply-held American mythology (e.g., the work ethic, the American dream, and American exceptionalism).