I wish I had known about this. I attend Prairie Baptist Church just a couple of blocks away from Asbury. I or rather my wife has a number of Methodist Ministers in her family. My Sunday School Class was just recently discussing the Marys. I will share this with them. I have read Several of your books and am currently rereading A People's History of Christianity. I Just finished Freeing Jesus.
Dianna, this is one of the most powerful sermons I've ever heard. You have completely reframed Holy Week for me, but also you have reframed what is most important about being church. I listened to this sermon again today as part of my preparation for writing this coming Sunday's sermon on Luke 14:7-14. When Jesus tells his listeners to invite all these people to supper that they normally wouldn't dream of inviting, he's not just crossing social walls, he's destroying them altogether and setting that as an invitational mandate for all who will follow him. The power of the empty tomb is made manifest when we regroup at the table. All the wounds inflicted on us during a week of discipleship find balm in our conversations at the table. If I had my way, we would take the pews out of our churches and replace them with long tables. Thank you for this inspired word.
Listening to the sermon and having read the essay, I wonder how we ever got the story otherwise! Did we forget that we call the whole opus "The Divine COMEDY"?
Thank you, I love the centrality of the table...preaching at four dif.churches in these days bet.easter and pentecost and will draw on that. Tomorrow union seminary discussion of a new book, the psychology of Christian nationalism...Betty Pagett
I wish I had known about this. I attend Prairie Baptist Church just a couple of blocks away from Asbury. I or rather my wife has a number of Methodist Ministers in her family. My Sunday School Class was just recently discussing the Marys. I will share this with them. I have read Several of your books and am currently rereading A People's History of Christianity. I Just finished Freeing Jesus.
Dianna, this is one of the most powerful sermons I've ever heard. You have completely reframed Holy Week for me, but also you have reframed what is most important about being church. I listened to this sermon again today as part of my preparation for writing this coming Sunday's sermon on Luke 14:7-14. When Jesus tells his listeners to invite all these people to supper that they normally wouldn't dream of inviting, he's not just crossing social walls, he's destroying them altogether and setting that as an invitational mandate for all who will follow him. The power of the empty tomb is made manifest when we regroup at the table. All the wounds inflicted on us during a week of discipleship find balm in our conversations at the table. If I had my way, we would take the pews out of our churches and replace them with long tables. Thank you for this inspired word.
You’re welcome
The table, yes! It's what always bring us home...
Listening to the sermon and having read the essay, I wonder how we ever got the story otherwise! Did we forget that we call the whole opus "The Divine COMEDY"?
Thank you, Gail!
My meals at the table will never be the same, thank you, Diana!
Your references to empire and the table so timely for today! May God’s government come
Loved your message of hospitality Diana!
let us consider replacing the cross on a table with simply a table as our central symbol
Thank you Diana, sharing a table with others have taken a deeper meaning! The poem was a perfect ending!
Excellent, Diana. Careful, you're letting a little John Knox into your Episcopal blood.
This image is transforming my storytelling and my preaching. Beautifully set forth! Thank you, really!
I was privileged to hear this in person!!! Table sacrament will have a lasting new focus for me.
My heart feels full. Thank you, Diana for bringing us to the table.
Refreshing and powerful words to bring the centrality and fluid connection of the key words. Thanks so much
Thank you, I love the centrality of the table...preaching at four dif.churches in these days bet.easter and pentecost and will draw on that. Tomorrow union seminary discussion of a new book, the psychology of Christian nationalism...Betty Pagett