This sermon was prepared with the Fourth of July in mind. Eventually, it plays on The Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s (in)famous “God Damn America” sermon, while at some level offering an alternative to (NOT a refutation of) Wright’s approach, one that accounts for the ways in which “people hear many different things when other people talk about God and country.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you’ve read the previous two sermons, the text returns to the theme of history and its humbling (yet oddly comforting) relationship to faith.

Here’s the text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16q-s...