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I drew the short straw.

I preached yesterday, on the 4th of July. Nobody else on staff jumped at it, and because I adore this country and because I was an American Studies major in college and have a particular affinity for exploring the boundaries and occasional discontinuities between the American and Christian identities, I bit.

I decided to preach about immigration. You can hear what I said beginning Tuesday on the Marble Church website.

I won't go in to a lengthy explanation of what I was trying to communicate. What I want to reflect upon here is my own experience of the sermon--what worked and what failed in my own eyes.

First, what failed... READ MORE.