Sermon: Calvin/Deer Park United Church Kevin Parks, Sunday September 28, 2025 Proper 21, Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Orange Shirt Sunday National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15
Sermon: Calvin/Deer Park United Church Kevin Parks, Sunday September 28, 2025 Proper 21, Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Orange Shirt Sunday National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 I’m coming down from the pulpit to stand among you this morning, so we can have a more intimate moment for storytelling, and even truth-telling. I’m going to tell you about Truth and Reconciliation, because Tuesday is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. My standing here, near to you, is to honour the Indigenous pattern of drawing into circles, of balance and equality. I’m not going to ask you to move so we can have a talking circle…though that is tempting!!...but I think the next best thing is to offer a model of equality that moves me down from a high place, where I am speaking down upon you, to a level of equality and mutuality. I liken this to the difference in Luke’s portrayal of Jesus as offering a sermon on t...