Reverend David Weissbard sermon is entitled “Shipwreck Theology” Zoom link:https://zoom.us/j/902138902

Last summer’s General Assembly in Spokane, there’s a controversy regarding The Gadfly Papers, a book self-published by Todd Eklof, the minister in Spokane. I’ve been reading many responses, and while I do not think the book is all that important, the responses to point to a continuing tension in our religious philosophy.

The Rev. James Galasinski, minister of our Canton congregation, delivered a sermon, “Footprints of Windigo,” that blew me away and I immediately felt had to be shared more widely. With James’ permission, I will be sharing that sermon with you.

I intended to update a three year old sermon based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel, It Can’t Happen Here for after-the-Fourth of July. I changed that sermon to another topic. But with notes of Lewis’s book appearing in the news, I want to present this sermon,

Next Sunday,being the first one in July, the Fourth will be history, but I will pretend it is not. I am wanting to significantly update a sermon I delivered 3 years ago that was based, in part, on Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here.

My computer dictionary defines a conundrum as “a confusing and difficult problem or question.  Anti-Semitism is hardly a new issue, but it certainly qualifies today as confusing and difficult in many ways. It is very much in the headlines and perhaps it is worth trying to sort out some of its dimensions.