equality — Reflections & Stories — Holy Trinity Falls Church

Eyes for Injustice

This Lent we have been hearing a different story than the one we have known, a lot of hard truth about the White-centered narrative that we don’t even realized shapes our views and our actions. In our Lent of Liberation devotional, conversations and sermons, we’ve wrestled with the past and present injustices perpetrated against black Americans. This sermon takes a look at German theologian and pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who gained a new perspective through the eyes of a black church and experience in Nazi Germany.

CommunicationsApril 12, 2022Bonhoeffer, sermon, Lent, oppression, injustice, equality, racial justice, understandingComment

Seek Uncomfortable Truth

White supremacy isn’t just those people who belong to the KKK, or say racial slurs, or outright say and believe that white people are superior… White supremacy is the centering of white people: our stories, our feelings, our perspectives, our well-being, our image, they all are the norm, the center, the measure. If Jesus is on the margins, and white supremacy creates and perpetuates the margins, then white supremacy separates me not only from my neighbor, but also from God.

CommunicationsMarch 17, 2022truth, marginalized, black history, white supremacy, racial justice, equality, equityComment

Top of the Town, Low Point in History

On February 29th, Pastor Mike preached from a new Word in the World sermon location. This time, he was at Fort Reno Park, the highest natural point in the District of Columbia but a place of past wrongs toward the black community. It represents a time of reflection and recalibration of the way we think about history, both in the world around us and within ourselves, as we enter into the Lenten season and ask God to help direct us to think and be better.

CommunicationsMarch 3, 2022fort reno park, fort reno, black history, equalityComment

Sharing God's Divine Food

The challenge is not to be complacent. Just because we are served and have our food does mean we get to sit back and enjoy it all to ourselves. We need to be reminded the food is not just for us. The calling therefore is to be motivated distributors of this divine food as often as possible. To be the ones who take down the walls that prevent others from getting enough to eat or the care they deserve.

Pastor MikeSeptember 9, 2021God's love, Jesus, equalityComment

"Walken" With Jesus

May we as a church joyfully keep walkin’ with Jesus, letting Jesus challenge and transform us to be reconciled people of faith, hope and love that shine forth in this world like a rainbow in the midst of the storm, assuring all that they are loved and that God’s Kingdom will come, and earth will be as heaven.

CommunicationsJune 22, 2021Christopher Walken, Jesus, disciples, miracles, storm, acceptance, equalityComment

Unmasking Inequality

What if Jesus was Philando Castile or George Floyd? What if Jesus was Breonna Taylor or Ahmaud Aubery? Jesus tells us in Matthew that ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ Jesus tells us that we are to see His face in the face of others, especially those who are suffering. It’s our responsibility as a society to help remove masks of inequality.

CommunicationsMarch 11, 2021George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, black people, race, racism, Howard Thurman, dignity, equalityComment

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