Texts: Esther 3:7-15; Matthew 15: 1-20
Most of us, I am sure, will remember that old children's game called Quaker ladies (or telephone, Chinese whispers, broken cord) that demonstrated two important things: First, how long does it take for any sentence, phrase, or word to go around in a circle of people; and, secondly, more importantly, how does that sentence, phrase, or word change from the first person to the last. Children giggle as they hear the changes. But that children's game indicates how a simple story about anything or any one can change, sometimes with devastating consequences.
We see it every day in the supermarket tabloids or on the internet: simple stories usually about those people we call celebrities that are, at the least, invasions of privacy, and at the most, nasty...
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 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" MICAH 6:8 NRSV |
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