The adventures of a restless and snarky seminary student in Seattle (well, the general metro area), as she pursues ordained ministry within the PC(USA)
Sunday, August 30, 2015
DO YOU HAVE A FLAG? - Sermon on Mark 7
Following the scripture reading I read a parable called Finding Faith out of Peter Rollins' book The Orthodox Heretic. The central point for the congregation to consider dealt with what needed to happen in order for someone to receive the gospel.
After the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated in 1945, shortly after the arrival of the British Red Cross to the camp, a particular supply arrived that Lt Colonel Gonin in his diary said did more for the internees who were liberated than anything else they had received.
Does anyone know or have a guess as to what that supply might have been?
"I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp in which my men and myself were to spend the next month of our lives. It was just a barren wilderness, as bare as a chicken run. Corpses lay everywhere, some in huge piles, sometimes they lay singly or in pairs where they had fallen. It took a little time to get used to seeing men women and children collapse as you walked by them and to restrain oneself from going to their assistance. One had to get used early to the idea that the individual just did not count. One knew that five hundred a day were dying and that five hundred a day were going on dying for weeks before anything we could do would have the slightest effect."
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