February 5: The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

From the smokiest Anglo-Catholic parish to the plainest puritan one with clear glass only it doesn’t matter how pretty, severe, or stark our worship is if we’re not sharing our bread with the hungry, bringing the homeless poor into our houses; and covering the naked it doesn’t matter. If we’re avoiding eye contact or staying in a bubble, choosing not to learn about systemic racism or housing policy or mass incarceration so that we can loose the bonds of injustice, undo the thongs of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke we will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

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