Storytelling the Pain of Past and Present
“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.” –Professor and Author Julius Lester Many preachers this week are busy considering the Exodus 1:8-2:10 lectionary text for this Sunday–the story of the women who saved the Hebrew children from the cruelties of a Pharaoh who “did not know Joseph.” Yes, it is also the story of the…