Edwin C. Boulton - "To Petrify the Sacred or Sanctify the Secular" (January 15, 1989)

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	(gospel singing)	0:00
-	[Rev. Nancy Ferree-Clark] Grace and peace to you	1:43
	on this second Sunday after the epiphany.	1:44
	We welcome you to the celebration of the Lord's supper	1:47
	here at the chapel, and we are especially glad to see	1:49
	those January freshman who just arrived on campus this week.	1:52
	We wish you well in your first several weeks of your college	1:56
	career, and if we here at the chapel may be of any	1:59
	assistance to you in any way, please let us know.	2:02
	We also extend greetings to those of you in our radio	2:05
	and television audiences.	2:08
	We welcome as our guest preacher this morning	2:10
	Bishop Edwin C. Boulton, president bishop	2:13
	of the East Ohio area of the United Methodist Church.	2:15
	Prior to his move to East Ohio in the fall of 1988,	2:19
	he served as bishop of Dakota's area for eight years,	2:23
	we regret that these locations were	2:27
	reversed in today's bulletin.	2:29
	Bishop Bolton began his ministry in the Iowa	2:31
	annual conference where he served for 16 years,	2:33
	we welcome him as our bishop Kenneth Goodson	2:36
	guest preacher this morning.	2:39
	For those of you who may have written for tickets for the	2:42
	1989 Christmas Eve service of blessings and carols,	2:45
	we have reconsidered this plan and we have decided	2:48
	not to issue tickets for this service.	2:52
	Admission will be on a first come, first serve basis,	2:55
	as usual.	2:58
	This Wednesday's lunchtime concert has been canceled,	3:00
	there will, however, be the usual organ demonstration	3:03
	at that time: 12:30pm.	3:06
	All Duke undergraduates interested in applying for	3:10
	this year's student preacher competition should note	3:13
	that the deadline is this Wednesday, January 18th.	3:16
	Please call the chapel office for further information.	3:20
	Please note the remaining announcements as	3:23
	they are printed in your bulletins.	3:25
	And now, let us continue our worship.	3:28
	(organ music)	3:31
	(singing)	4:05
	(organ music)	6:30
	(singing)	7:17
	When we gather to praise God, we remember that we	7:52
	are people who have preferred our own wills to the Lord's.	7:56
	Accepting God's power to become new persons in Christ,	8:00
	let us confess our sins before God and one another.	8:04
	Please be seated.	8:10
	Have mercy upon us, oh God, according to thy loving	8:22
	kindness, according the multitude of thy tender mercies,	8:26
	blot out our transgressions.	8:30
	Wash us thoroughly from our inequities	8:33
	and cleanse us from our sins, for we acknowledge	8:35
	our transgressions and our sin is ever before us.	8:39
	Create in us clean hearts, oh God, and renew a right spirit	8:44
	within us.	8:49
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	8:50
	Hear the good news, Christ died for us while we were	8:55
	yet sinners.	8:59
	That is God's proof of his love toward us,	9:00
	in the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	9:03
All	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	9:08
-	Let us pray, open our hearts and minds, oh God,	9:19
	by the power of your holy spirit so that as the word	9:23
	is read and proclaimed, we might hear with joy what you say	9:28
	to us this day, amen.	9:32
	Please stand for a reading from the gospel according to	9:35
	Saint John.	9:38
	On the third day, there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee,	9:43
	and the mother of Jesus was there.	9:47
	Jesus, also, was invited to the marriage with his disciples.	9:50
	When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him	9:54
	they have no wine, and Jesus said to her, oh woman,	9:57
	what have you to do with me, my hour has not come.	10:01
	His mother said to the servants, do whatever he tells you.	10:05
	Now, six stone jars were standing there for the Jewish	10:09
	rights of purification, each holding 20 or 30 gallons.	10:12
	Jesus said to them, fill the jars with water,	10:17
	and they filled them to the brim.	10:20
	He said to them, now draw some out and take it to	10:22
	the steward of the feast.	10:26
	So they took it.	10:28
	When the steward of the feast tasted the water	10:29
	now become wine and did not know where it had came from,	10:32
	the servants who had drawn the water knew.	10:35
	The steward of the feast called the bridegroom and said	10:38
	to him, every mans serves the good wine first,	10:41
	and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine,	10:44
	but you have kept the good wine until now.	10:48
	This is the first of his signs Jesus did at Cana in Galilee,	10:51
	and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.	10:55
	This ends the reading of the gospel.	11:00
	Thanks be to God.	11:02
	(organ music)	11:04
	(singing)	11:30
-	There he was, on his knees,	14:26
	polishing my shoes.	14:32
	We had met for the first time only a few months before,	14:37
	and so the first thought was if this really was to be	14:42
	a model of how one treated a Bishop,	14:47
	maybe this was the best	14:52
	model I'd ever seen, better than having one's	14:53
	episcopal ring kissed any day.	14:58
	And no more Shinola or Kiwi under the fingernails	15:03
	on Saturday night.	15:08
	He was shining my shoes.	15:11
	This man and I had attended a dinner earlier in the evening	15:14
	at North Dakota state university, and came finally	15:18
	to a church in Fargo for a worship service.	15:23
	There was some snow on the ground that January evening	15:27
	and my shoes were a little smudged.	15:30
	We were in the pastor's study,	15:35
	this shoe-shine man and I,	15:37
	getting into our robes.	15:42
	He too, you see, was a clergy person, a bishop in fact,	15:44
	and so both of us had rings,	15:49
	both of us had shoes.	15:53
	But there he was in front of me,	15:57
	kneeling down in front of me,	16:02
	shining my shoes.	16:07
	A kind of thing, I guess, that my mother had done for years,	16:12
	not necessarily literally shining my shoes,	16:16
	but doing that which she felt I needed done to make me look	16:20
	as good as possible.	16:23
	A task that my wife seems to do with such care	16:27
	and sensitivity and regularity, even now.	16:32
	For, you see, there are some of us who need a little more	16:37
	assistance, it would seem,	16:40
	than others to look our best.	16:43
	But, instinctively, in that moment as I saw this man	16:48
	kneeling in front of me I wanted to say, no Justin,	16:51
	that really isn't necessary and it makes me feel	16:56
	very uncomfortable,	16:59
	but Justin Driscoll, who was the bishop	17:02
	of the Roman Catholic diocese of Fargo, North Dakota	17:07
	was doing something that was profound, instinctive	17:14
	and natural to him.	17:17
	This good man had, along the way, learned to bridge the	17:21
	sacred and the secular,	17:25
	to develop a feel for the ebb	17:29
	and the flow of the stuff of life that insists	17:31
	there is an unbreakable corollary between celebrating	17:35
	mass and shining	17:39
	another persons' shoes.	17:43
	A profound insight not very well learned	17:47
	by some others of us.	17:53
	Get up, Justin.	17:56
	But he kept right on shining my shoes.	18:00
	I have long admired the insights of Rabi Abraham Joshua	18:07
	Heschel, and I'm convinced he is right.	18:11
	It is an inherent weakness of religion, he says,	18:17
	not to take offense at the segregation of God,	18:21
	to forget that the true sanctuary has no walls.	18:27
	Religion has often suffered, he says, from the tendency	18:31
	to become self-indulgent,	18:36
	self-seeking, as if the task	18:38
	were not to enable human nature, but to enhance	18:42
	the power and the beauty of the institutions,	18:45
	or the enlarge the body of doctrines.	18:49
	And he goes on to say that it has often done more	18:52
	to canonize prejudices, this distorted religion,	18:55
	to canonize prejudices than to wrestle for truth.	19:01
	And then he comes, lastly, in this remarkable statement	19:06
	of his to this pregnant phrase	19:09
	of the tendency in so much	19:14
	religion to petrify	19:16
	the sacred	19:21
	than to sanctify the secular.	19:25
	It is not an easy assignment this, but a crucial one,	19:33
	to which each of us is called to assure that the things	19:38
	of our faith are not turned into lifeless stone,	19:43
	petrified,	19:48
	and equally to assure that the common things of everyday	19:50
	retain the Imago Dei, the image of God, with which	19:56
	they were created and intended.	20:00
	Dear friends, I am convinced that the profound problem	20:04
	for me, and I believe the profound problem for the church	20:07
	at large,	20:11
	the agonizing problem for people of faith	20:15
	has nothing to do with secularism or humanism,	20:19
	or any other theological, political, or philosophical -ism,	20:26
	it is the constant tendency of our religion to turn inward	20:32
	to become an end in itself,	20:40
	and thus to be self-serving,	20:44
	arrogant, irrelevant,	20:47
	dull, oppressive and insipid.	20:53
	Religion for religion's sake	20:59
	is to violate the commandment against idolatry.	21:03
	Jesus frequently tampered with the sacred	21:09
	fetishes of the Jews, particularly that of the Pharisees	21:14
	and the Sadducees, the intellectual and social	21:17
	religious elite of his day.	21:21
	Their tendency was to freeze into place the religious	21:23
	experiences, impulses and instincts of the people	21:27
	so that there was really little room for faith,	21:30
	but vast room for absolutes.	21:34
	Jesus, on the other hand, insisted on an openness,	21:39
	a hospitality, an unafraidness of the new, in fact,	21:44
	an expectancy of the unexpected	21:48
	from God.	21:53
	Our Lord insisted that in his preaching and teaching,	21:55
	the law of Moses would be brought to fulfillment,	21:58
	however, because of this age-old tendency in our faith	22:01
	to petrify, literally to embalm, to kill that which	22:06
	is alive, Jesus stood in firm opposition to the religious	22:10
	aristocracy of his day.	22:15
	Three times in the early stages of that classic statement	22:18
	of his, that we sometimes refer to as the sermon	22:21
	on the mount, he said you've heard it said of old	22:24
	but I say to you	22:26
	that is not the way it is.	22:31
	And so, I think we must decide	22:33
	whether in our faith	22:38
	and in what we do in the common course of our common living	22:41
	the net result will be either to petrify the sacred	22:47
	or to sanctify the secular	22:51
	as Rabi Heschel	22:57
	has so pointedly reminded us.	23:02
	Most fair minded and intelligent people want to know	23:06
	the basic answers, the clues, the roadmap, the directions	23:09
	that they can follow in arriving at a viable faith	23:13
	experience.	23:15
	It's no badge of intelligence to forge ahead and to say,	23:17
	I know how to solve that when a fair minded question	23:20
	to a good source in the right spirit might open up	23:25
	a wave for us, asking questions of the right person	23:30
	and in the right spirit can be exceedingly beneficial,	23:34
	sometimes it backfires though, sometimes it's dangerous,	23:40
	sometimes it's embarrassing.	23:42
	A mother just sent her teenage daughter to the sewing room	23:45
	in the basement of the house to sew a button on a pair	23:50
	of slacks that the young woman had been procrastinating	23:54
	about that too long, her mother finally had it up to here	23:57
	and she says, Sally you've got to get down	24:00
	and get that done.	24:02
	Sally went reluctantly and rather begrudgingly,	24:04
	she was gone for long time and finally the mother	24:08
	in continuing despair and anger, hollered downstairs,	24:11
	are you running around down there without any pants on?	24:14
	And husky male voice came back, no ma'am I'm just reading	24:19
	the water meter.	24:22
	Well, to ask questions	24:24
	can be embarrassing	24:31
	but it can also be powerfully revelatory.	24:35
	And so, a bunch of Jews came to Jesus one day with	24:41
	the intent of setting him up,	24:45
	and after at least two	24:49
	aborted attempts to entrap him	24:51
	in which he dealt with them very charitably,	24:56
	really, somebody, we don't know who,	24:58
	a Pharisee, that's all we know, and this man may have	25:03
	done what he did in the right spirit, he finally	25:07
	turned to Jesus and said,	25:11
	master	25:16
	it's tough to know	25:20
	the answers, that's my gloss but I'm sure it was preceded	25:21
	by something like that, and then he did say this,	25:26
	according to the written record,	25:31
	which is the greatest	25:35
	commandment.	25:39
	If it was possible to know this, both as farasee	25:42
	and all of us would have the core of the matter at hand.	25:47
	We would then be able to distinguish good and bad	25:52
	in our religious experience, we could avert the age-old	25:55
	tendency to petrify the sacred, we could be about	25:58
	the business of sanctifying the secular.	26:03
	Would Jesus' answer be contained in one volume or 500?	26:08
	You know the answer, Jesus answered this Pharisee in what	26:15
	we in the English language translate into no more than	26:20
	50 words.	26:24
	You shall love the Lord your God with all you heart,	26:30
	with all your soul, with all your mind,	26:33
	that is the greatest commandment, it comes first,	26:36
	and the second is like it:	26:41
	love your neighbor as yourself.	26:44
	Everything in the law and the prophets	26:49
	hangs on these two commandments.	26:54
	That's all there is to it, all there is to it.	26:58
	Yes, yes.	27:04
	But, but.	27:09
	There probably is not a person here who has not fallen	27:16
	prey to the temptation to romanticize the experience	27:21
	of loving God.	27:26
	Jesus made that kind of terrible exercise	27:29
	forever impossible.	27:36
	Jesus insisted that if I am	27:42
	serious about loving God,	27:47
	I have to first of all love myself,	27:55
	and that's a bunch.	28:01
	And he also insisted that I have to love you,	28:06
	and that's not always a picnic.	28:11
	You can't romanticize your conversion.	28:17
	You can't romanticize your	28:28
	conversion without doing violence	28:32
	to it, to yourself	28:37
	and to others.	28:41
	Electricity is deadly dangerous	28:45
	if it isn't grounded,	28:49
	so is faith.	28:53
	Jesus took the dangerous voltage of faith in God,	28:56
	with it's compulsion to turn inward and thus to petrify	29:02
	and ran it through a transformer and grounded it	29:08
	in love for self and neighbor.	29:12
	He insisted thereby that cogent faith in God	29:18
	would always result in the	29:22
	sanctifying of the secular.	29:25
	If our faith is like a piece of petrified wood,	29:30
	and most petrified wood I've ever seen is really quite	29:35
	beautiful, then it's just that:	29:38
	a beautiful piece of deadness,	29:44
	of relatively little worth and,	29:48
	in the arena of faith, inevitably dangerous.	29:51
	I cannot profess to love God	29:57
	until I love myself,	30:01
	I cannot profess to love God until I love you,	30:05
	I cannot profess to love God until I stop throwing stones	30:09
	of fear and derision at other people,	30:13
	the poor, the Jews, the Russians, the Indians,	30:17
	the person with aids, and for a lot of us in the church,	30:22
	the homosexual.	30:30
	Tomorrow, Monday,	30:36
	we remember the mountain climber	30:40
	and the age-old mountain of human dignity climbed	30:45
	by Martin Luther King Jr.	30:49
	The climb has always been treacherous,	30:53
	and always will be because most of us,	30:59
	there may be a few exceptions here,	31:05
	but most of us live in paranoid	31:08
	whirls of fear and pain.	31:13
	A stunning statement on	31:19
	how we live in tragic isolation,	31:23
	each from the other, is made in the current film,	31:27
	Rain Man.	31:35
	Go see it.	31:40
	They're not going to give me a dime for saying this,	31:45
	wish they would.	31:48
	I'd even take three dimes.	31:51
	But it's a classic, powerful statement	31:55
	declaring the fact that we are all autistic.	32:01
	We are all autistic, isolated,	32:09
	alone, mute, foreigners,	32:14
	living in our own pain,	32:19
	knowing tragically too little	32:23
	about each other, racked by secret	32:25
	and not-so-secret fears.	32:29
	Our God is peculiar,	32:41
	strange marching orders have	32:45
	been given to the army of which you and I are a part.	32:47
	Orders of urgent mandate	32:53
	which we cannot countermand	32:57
	that says we must sanctify	33:03
	the secular by loving neighbor	33:07
	as we love ourselves.	33:14
	Justin, get up,	33:18
	you make me uncomfortable down there	33:24
	on your knees, shining my shoes,	33:26
	and he said not a word	33:32
	but just kept on shining.	33:36
	But what he didn't say	33:44
	was infinitely more powerful	33:49
	because of what he was doing,	33:53
	and now we come finally this morning	34:00
	as we do frequently,	34:04
	to the feast,	34:09
	and we do it around the common, get the word,	34:12
	the common elements of bread and wine.	34:18
	God forgive me,	34:26
	did I call bread and wine common?	34:29
	Justin, get up.	34:39
	But he wouldn't.	34:53
-	The Lord be with you.	35:12
	Let us pray.	35:16
	Almighty God, giver of all things, with gladness	35:22
	we give thee thanks for all of your goodness,	35:26
	we bless you for the love which has created and which	35:30
	sustains us from day to day and which makes all of life	35:33
	sacred.	35:38
	Help us to treasure in our hearts all that our Lord	35:41
	has done for us, and enable us to show our thankfulness	35:43
	by lives that are wholly given to your service.	35:48
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	35:52
	Save and defend your whole church,	35:57
	purchased with the precious blood of Christ.	35:59
	Give it pastors and ministers filled with your spirit	36:03
	and strengthen it trough the word and the holy sacraments,	36:06
	make it perfect in love and in all good works,	36:11
	and establish it in the faith delivered to the Saints,	36:16
	sanctify and unite your people in all the world,	36:20
	that one holy church may bear witness to you,	36:23
	the creator and redeemer of all.	36:27
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	36:31
	Preserve our nation in justice and honor that we may lead	36:36
	a peaceable life of integrity, grant health and favour	36:40
	to all who bear office in our land, especially to	36:45
	the president of the United States, the Governor of this	36:49
	state and all those who make, administer and judge our laws,	36:53
	and help them to serve this people according	36:58
	to your holy will.	37:00
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	37:02
	Take from us all hatred and prejudice, give us the spirit	37:06
	of love, and dispose our days in your peace,	37:10
	prosper the labors of those who take council for	37:15
	the nations of the world, that mutual understanding	37:18
	and common endeavor may be increased among all peoples.	37:21
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	37:26
	Bless the schools of the church and all colleges,	37:31
	universities and sinners of research, and those who	37:34
	teach in them.	37:38
	Bestow your wisdom is such measure that our common life	37:40
	may be conformed to the rule of your truth and justice.	37:44
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	37:48
	Comfort with the grace of your Holy Spirit all who	37:53
	are in sorrow or need, sickness or adversity,	37:56
	remember those who suffer persecution for the faith.	38:00
	Have mercy on those to whom death draws near,	38:04
	bring consolation to those in sorrow or mourning,	38:09
	and to all, grant a measure of your love,	38:13
	taking them into your tender care.	38:16
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	38:20
	We remember with thanksgiving those who have loved	38:24
	and served you in your church on earth, who now rest	38:27
	from their labors, especially those most dear to us,	38:31
	whom we name before you in our hearts.	38:34
	Keep us in fellowship with all your Saints	38:42
	and bring us at last to the joy of your heavenly	38:45
	kingdom.	38:48
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	38:49
	All these things, and whatever else you see	38:54
	that we need, grant us, oh God, for the sake	38:56
	of him of died and rose again, and now lives	38:59
	and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,	39:02
	one God for ever and ever.	39:06
	Amen.	39:09
	Christ invites to his table all who love him	39:13
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	39:15
	Let us stand and offer each other signs of God's	39:19
	peace and love.	39:22
	And now, let us offer our gifts and ourselves unto God.	39:41
	(organ music)	39:47
	(choir singing)	40:28
	(organ music)	43:16
	(singing)	45:48
	The Lord be with you.	46:51
All	And also with you.	46:53
-	Lift up your hearts	46:55
All	Lift up your hearts.	46:57
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	46:58
	Blessed are you, Lord our God, creator and sovereign	47:04
	of the universe.	47:07
	Our light and our salvation.	47:09
	Before the mountains were brought forth or you had	47:12
	formed the earth, from everlasting to everlasting,	47:14
	you alone, are God.	47:18
	Therefore, with your people in all ages and the whole	47:20
	company of heaven, we join in the song of unending	47:23
	praise, saying Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power	47:26
	and light, heaven and earth are full of your glory,	47:32
	hosanna and the highest, blessed is he who comes in	47:36
	the name of the Lord, hosanna and the highest.	47:39
	Truly Holy are you, Lord God, in the fullness of time	47:43
	you revealed yourself in your blessed son, Jesus Christ,	47:47
	the light of the world.	47:51
	Through him, we are saved and baptized into your service.	47:53
	You sent a star to guide wise men to where the Christ	47:57
	was born, and your signs and witnesses in every age	48:01
	and through all the world have led persons from	48:05
	far distances to him.	48:08
	In his baptism and in his table fellowship,	48:10
	he identified with sinners, he preached good news	48:13
	to the poor, proclaimed release to the captives	48:17
	and recovery of sight to the blind, set free the oppressed	48:20
	and announced that the time had come when you would save	48:25
	your people.	48:28
	On the night his disciples betrayed and deserted him,	48:30
	he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread,	48:33
	gave it to his disciples and said, take, eat, this is my	48:37
	body which is given for you, do this in remembrance	48:42
	of me.	48:46
	When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks	48:48
	to you, gave it to his disciples and said,	48:51
	drink from this, all of you, for this is my blood	48:54
	of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many,	48:57
	for the forgiveness of sins.	49:00
	Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.	49:02
	By the baptism of his suffering, death and resurrection,	49:07
	you gave birth to your church.	49:11
	His presence has continued with his people as they have	49:13
	been baptized into him and in the breaking of bread	49:16
	and sharing of the cup, in Jerusalem and in all Judia	49:20
	and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, therefore,	49:23
	in remembrance of all your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,	49:27
	we who in past years have been baptized into the death	49:30
	and resurrection of Christ, now offer ourselves to you	49:34
	and you, in union with Christ's sacrifice for us,	49:38
	as a living and holy surrender of ourselves.	49:41
	Send the power of your Holy Spirit on us and on these	49:45
	gifts, that in the breaking of this bread and the	49:49
	drinking of this wine, we may know the presence of	49:51
	the living Christ, be one body in him, cleansed	49:54
	by his blood and look forward to his coming	49:58
	in final victory.	50:01
	Through him, with him, in him, in the unity	50:03
	of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory is yours,	50:07
	almighty God, now and forever.	50:11
	Amen.	50:14
	Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	50:16
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	50:20
	on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day	50:23
	our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses	50:26
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	50:29
	and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,	50:33
	for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.	50:37
	Amen.	50:41
	(organ music)	51:30
	(singing)	52:10
	(choir singing)	58:15
	(organ music)	1:00:38
	(choir singing)	1:03:05
-	Pour out upon us the spirit of your love, oh Lord,	1:05:04
	and unite the wills of those whom you have fed with	1:05:07
	one heavenly food.	1:05:11
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, we pray.	1:05:13
	Amen.	1:05:16
	And now may the God of steadfastness and encouragement	1:05:18
	grant you to live in such harmony with one another	1:05:21
	in accord with Christ, Jesus, that together you may,	1:05:24
	with one voice, glorify the God and father of our Lord,	1:05:28
	Jesus Christ.	1:05:31
	Amen.	1:05:32
	(organ music)	1:05:35
	(singing)	1:06:11
	(organ music)	1:08:50
	(bell ringing)	1:09:20
	(organ music)	1:09:48

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Title:

Edwin C. Boulton - "To Petrify the Sacred or Sanctify the Secular" (January 15, 1989)

Description:

We have a tendency, as Christians, to want to contain and "petrify" the sacred. What we should be about, instead, is "sanctifying the secular." The way we do this is by loving ourselves and loving our neighbors. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 14:26. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 34:58.
Key quotation: “I cannot profess to love God until I love myself; I cannot profess to love God until I love you; I cannot profess to love God until I stop throwing stones of fear and derision at other people.”

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Date:

January 15, 1989

Speaker:

Boulton, Edwin C.

Liturgical Calendar:

Epiphany

Biblical Book:

John

Chapter and Verse:

John 2:1-11

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

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Edwin C. Boulton - "To Petrify the Sacred or Sanctify the Secular" (January 15, 1989)

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