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If we keep going the way we’re going, we’re going to get where we’re going.

—Navajo Wisdom

America is living stormy Monday, but the pulpit is preaching happy Sunday.The world is experiencing the Blues, and pulpiteers are dispensing excessive doses of non-prescription prosaic sermons with several ecclesiastical and theological side-effects.The church is becoming a place where Christianity is nothing more than Capitalism in drag.

—Otis Moss III, Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.

“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.”

—Psalm 46:9–10