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The sermon "This Flag Has Legs" invites dialogue for listening to conflicting ideas and meanings that people attach to the flag in church.

Preaching around patriotic holidays is a difficult challenge. "Flagging the Flag -- Idolatry and Freedom" confronts Christian Nationalism.

It's bad theology to believe the U.S. flag has a place in a worship space. Here's a sermon to challenge that Christian Nationalist assumption.

A Palm Sunday sermon countering the violence of Christian Nationalism calls for trust in God and prophetic courage.

Ezekiel’s sermon to the dry bones echoes across the millennia to our own time and our need for racial restoration and reparations.

The story of Jesus and the man with blindness in John 9:1-41 can counter the disability discrimination of Christian Nationalism.

Jesus’s “living water” can help wash away the toxic masculinity of Christian Nationalism.

Christians must speak out against anti-Semitism. A sermon on Genesis 12:1-4a can help counter Christian Nationalist hatred against Jews.

The temptations Satan offers Jesus are strikingly similar to the temptations of Christian Nationalism. How should the Church respond?

What is going to happen to the surplus women in society? Or does an All-Wise providence create them for waste?"