Reverend Deandre Bruton

Join me as I bring the preached word this morning.

Sunday Worship: November 24, 2024 - Christ the King Join us on Sunday morning for Holy Eucharist Rite II.If you have any prayer requests, please type them into the live chat.Grab your bulletin here: https://ww...

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Sunday Worship: September 29, 2024 - Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Join us on Sunday morning for Holy Eucharist Rite II.If you have any prayer requests, please type them into the live chat.Grab your bulletin here: https://ww...

The use of the word “healed” is being thrown around like the excuse of “mental illness” when acknowledging evil is uncomfortable. There is more to its definition that the mere articulation of the word “healed”. Healing takes time and work and the reality is it is easier to be up date with the language than it is to be involved in the work. I wonder if we should instead of seeking to be healed, we live in the process. In other words, “I am healing” insinuating that I am doing the work of healing and I don’t underestimate the depth nor the difficulty of said work.

It is a form of plantation theology, master over slave when a pastor feels that a parishioner is obligated to disclose their reasoning for departing ways. You are a steward, not God, these are not your sheep, they belong to God. Let’s stop the foolishness. It doesn’t mean they have left the (C)hurch. And contrary to belief they don’t have to tell you anything. You pray for them, wish them well and continue with those who remain and those to come. Get out your feelings. Pastotalship is a calling and office not your identity

John 1:38
Jesus knowing (He saw them following) that they desired to speak to him, turned(stopped and drew nearer) and asked them, “what do you want?”

The grace of God is that in our feeling of unworthiness, our shame and guilt to approach or to draw nearer to God, God himself draws nearer to us and inquires of our desire of him. That is good right there!!

The divide continues when whiteness has convinced the African and the African American that their stories are not interconnected. 500 years is not enough time to rid blood! It’s OUR STORY and we’re all victims. I am the descendant of someone’s stolen child.

Watching the hunger games and can’t help but think of the irony of how it is the epitome of whiteness in America. Withholding resources from a people, turning them on one another,stripping them from their families, causing war that requires one to fend for his or herself that those within the capitol benefit from and somehow those outside the capital are the savages.

The capitol is meant to preserve whiteness because anything anyone other than whiteness is savage, inhumane right? In all honesty, to be truly humane in the American context is to be truly inhumane. Since it has to be the antithesis of what America defines as human.

Watching the hunger games and can’t help but think of the irony of how it is the epitome of whiteness in America. Withholding resources from a people, turning them on one another,stripping them from their families, causing war that requires one to fend for his or herself that those within the capitol benefit from and somehow those outside the capital are the savages. The capitol is meant to preserve whiteness.

People who buy into smoke screens that suggest their people group are responsible for the acts and results of oppression caused by whiteness. In other wards you believe a woman who was r***d brought it on herself. You completely absolve the man of his responsibility. You sound stupid, you are the problem and more dangerous than the man who r***d her. Let that sink in.