The sermon I hope for from every White Evangelical Church this Sunday

This is the sermon I hope will be preached from every white evangelical pulpit this Sunday.

1. We deplore the way that President Elect Trump has talked about immigrants. We follow a Lord who was an immigrant in Egypt. We are heartbroken that people within our community are afraid. We weep with the teachers of Southwest community campus, who cried as they thought of their students whose parents are here without documentation. We think President Trump is a blowhard who said many outrageous things, but we hope he is not going to actually act on them. Should he begin to attempt his mass deportation: We pledge to oppose any effort at mass deportation. Our best lawyers are going to work in the courts to keep families together. Our homes and churches will be open and places of sanctuary. We will place out bodies in front of the agents of deportation.

2. We are disgusted by the things President Elect Trump has said about women and the way he has treated women and their bodies. We also recognize the unique burden an unplanned pregnancy places on women and their bodies. We follow a Lord whose Mother was not planning to be pregnant with him. We pledge to open our checkbooks to help with the expenses that come with an unplanned pregnancy. We pledge to open our homes if that would be a help through the pregnancy and beyond. If a mother wishes to put her child up for adoption we pledge to open our homes to adopt.

3. We are sickened by the way President Elect Trump talked about many minorities. Many of us in the white community have no idea what it is like to have been the victims of systemic oppression through the centuries. But, we do follow a Lord who was part of a people who were under systemic oppression.We have no idea what it is like to be in your shoes. When we think about having “the talk” with our sons or daughters we are thinking about talking about “sex” – not what our sons and daughters need to do to be safe if they are pulled over. We pledge to be better listeners, and after listening, we desire to be allies in the struggle for equal justice for all.

I think a sermon like that might go a ways towards bringing some peace and comfort to the people within the US who have been deeply troubled since Tuesday evening.