Finding the House No Wolf Can Blow Down
He strides up to his pulpit eager to express his anger. He's been seething all week as he's heard from his television mentors, that there's a tyrant in the White House. He can't contain his anger at the news, the tyrant, and of course the fools that voted for him. But he thanks God that there's an outlet for his anger--his pulpit! And so he rushes to vent his anger before a captive audience who came to hear the Good News of Christ but instead will hear a screed of a bitter ideologue. To pull off this bait and switch he must somehow tie the weeks Gospel reading into a modern-day political message. But it's this type of exegetical gymnastics of which he's become a master! For the disgruntled politically minded preacher the Gospel is but a tool and a license. A tool to deliver his political views and personal gripes, and a license to peddle these personal views in the "Name of Jesus". He is a wolf. And he is not alone. The churches of A...
