This sermon, preached at United Christian Church of Lodi, CA, is based on the passage in the book of Exodus about the midwives saving baby Moses’s life.
Before I began to preach, I let the congregation know that the sermon had been shaped by our President having just pardoned a genocidal man who bragged about building concentration camps for Mexicans, white supremacists playing whack-a-mole in the city of San Francisco the day before, and the fact that my friends were gathering in Berkeley as we met to nonviolently stand up against more white supremacists. I asked for their grace in hearing a message shaped by that context.
One other thing to note: I don’t preach from a manuscript, and this morning that resulted in me using a phrase I now know not to use: “low person on the totem pole” is an unhelpful, inaccurate and hurtful phrase. I apologize for its use as I continue to work on unlearning harmful turns of phrase and ways of thinking.
Sandhya Rani Jha 