Archive for January 6th, 2009

Bishop N.T. Wright gave a sermon called “The Government Shall Be Upon His Shoulders” on Christmas Eve. I just read it, and I wish I had read it right before Christmas or soon after. So, try to take a step back when you read it, and remember what we’ve felt during Christmas and even the past political season.

Excerpt: Because this night [Christmas Eve], together with its senior cousin, the night of Easter, is the real night for which planet earth was waiting and to which it must look back if it wants to know the way forward. We place too much trust in our politicians because we place too little trust in God, and in the self-revelation of the living God in the child who is born to us. And when our politicians let us down, all we can think of is . . . how to find another politician, who will get it right this time…Past experience suggests that at this point someone will be thinking, I came here tonight to hear about the baby Jesus, not to have a political rant. Well, all right, let’s talk about the baby Jesus…

[read the sermon in its entirety here]