by Marcia Mount Shoop
Colossians 1:11-20
“It is hard for me to read this passage in Colossians without the weight of 1500 years of Christian triumphalism. It’s hard for me to read all the ways Jesus is supreme and better and the only, and the beginning and the end, and not feel the tentacles of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism taking Jesus down from the cross and dividing up the spoils of his embodiment of divine love.
It’s hard for me to read this passage through the lens of liberation because of all the violence and oppression that Christianity has sanctioned and deployed in God’s name and in Jesus’ name–acting like domination is the way of the one who came to save us from our self-destructive obsession with hierarchies and dominating power.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 11/20/22 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 33:40)