with Rev. Clay Nelson
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Opening words are from ‘Everybody’s In’, a Prayer By Lori Walke
Closing words are ‘A Protest and a Party’, by Hannah Roberts Villnave
Clay Nelson © 16 February 2020
For as long as I have been giving sermons I’ve been guided by the maxim that it is the preacher’s job “to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
I always thought it came from some saint of the distant past; turns out that it was by Finley Peter Dunne, an Irish humourist who wrote a column for a Chicago newspaper. In 1901 he had this to say about newspapers, not preachers, although they seem to have a number of commonalities:
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