In the Midst of My People – 7/11/2010

Sermon text: Amos 7: 7-17

In 1898, a Chicago columnist named Finley Peter Dunne coined a phrase about the role of the newspaper in his society, the age of muckraking journalism. The paper, he said, “comforts th’afflicted and afflicts th’ comfortable.”  Throughout the century that followed, a number of astute religious leaders have picked up the phrase to describe what should be the aim of religion in society. “To comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.” … Read full sermon here (PDF).

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunned