Obviously all of us in the traditional churches heard the same lesson this morning.
Our priest used it also to talk about putting walls up for people who are "different" or not in our crowd.
She is never obnoxious, but fairly sure she leans a bit to liberalism. I think she was more afraid of offending those who think Jesus was God while he was on earth and thus not subject to prejudice or misunderstanding which he obviously was.
She wondered what people thought who read that Texas is one of three states (I think it was three) wherein whites are a minority. My thought was, "that's fine, as long as they are legal and habla engleese."
"as long as they are legal and habla ingles."
I couldn't agree more! Our pastor also noted that God loves the terrorists--a tough statement, but a true one, I am sure. It's us on earth that need to deal with them, let God love 'em later!