The need for a universal morality
Sermon for Pentecost XXI, delivered at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisville KY Text: Matthew 22:15-22 In 2023, I preached on this passage, and like any preacher with a few years spent in the pulpit, I am challenged with writing another sermon on this passage. The first sermon was perfect and said everything I wanted, so what else could I say? I went back and looked at what I wrote and realized that my theology, my own beliefs had changed, and I wanted to explore that change. In 2023 I wrote about voting as part of giving what belongs to Caesar, to Caesar. “This is another instance where we run into having to give time to Caesar and time to God, and in both cases in my eyes, they are equally important and we have equal responsibility for both. However, equal importance and obligation brings us close to blurring the lines between them, like seeing voting as a religious duty or attending worship services as a civic duty.” It was that last line, “voting as ...