12th Sunday after Pentecost

Our Gospel text for today speaks directly to the “us” and “them” mentality that often rears its ugly head in our human world.

It has always been easy to ‘draw a circle’ so that some are inside and others are out. It may be people of a different race or ethnic origin, different gender or gender orientation, age, educational background or ability. It is easy to look at the man with tattoos or the woman with many piercings, the man who stutters or the woman who didn’t make it through high school and say that this person is just “not like us”.

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