I didn’t realize it until after I came up with it but the sermon title could reasonably be considered an attack on purity culture. It isn’t. Not to say I don’t have some things to say about purity culture and its essential misogyny and fundamental destructive orientation but if I ever preach a sermon about…
First of all, a word of explanation, followed by an apology. This Sunday may sound different in the “physical” audio but will also begin much differently than usual because I did not preach at St. Mark’s in Moose Jaw but rather at Trinity Presbyterian, in Grenfell. Grenfell is about a hundred kilometres east of Regina….
This Sunday’s sermon title is one of those that doesn’t work particularly in print. The phrase (or whatever it should be called when I don’t want to repeat the word “title” again) Peace? Really? could be incredulously hopeful, which is not what I was aiming for. The intonation I was envisaging (en-hearing?) was almost derisive…