This column appears in the December 2, 2013 issue of America magazine. Sitting in a Cambridge, Mass., movie theater with a friend, I forced myself not to look or shy away from the violent scenes in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave.” Unlike the gratuitous violence of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” or Quentin Tarantino’s […]
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O Holy Lord: Come, God of All Possibilities and Set Us Free
O sacred Lord of ancient Israel, who showed yourself to Moses in the burning bush, who gave him the holy law on Sinai mountain: come, stretch out your mighty hand to set us free. The use of the honorific “Lord” has, over the years, become the source of some controversy. Many women and men, with […]
