Sunday/Form and Substance
The gospel today is the fruit of the tree gospel, the nature of the individual will be shown in his deeds, not his words. This is such a known gospel that it may be fatigued. Yet the wheel always turns.
Our world today values the gesture. We punish the wrong opinion more firmly than the wrong action. In a sense, it is a replay of the old "form vs. substance" discussion. And it is powerful. The international problems we face now in Europe scream it. Russia invades Ukraine, the strength of the act being the West's dependency on cartel oil. The solution to the energy threat, to unleash the energy resources in the U.S., is captive to the green-world gesture.
So we wear the badge of social concern when the true problems hide in plain sight with their solutions.
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