<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Well said Ted.<div>I did not hear Pastor Isaac’s message in any Christmas time sermons.</div><div>Thanks David for circulating this.</div><div>Allan<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 29, 2023, at 7:56 AM, Ted Schmidt <jtschmidt@bell.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Best Christmas sermon of the year, absolutely prophetic, shot across the Bow to bourgeois churches, saying nothing, shaming Jesus</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 28, 2023, at 10:55 PM, David Walsh via craic <craic@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">Christ in the Rubble – Rev Isaac Munther’s powerful Christmas sermon in Bethlehem<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br>The theology of empire – “</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;">a powerful tool to mask oppression – the concept of land without people; the weaponization of the bible”.<br></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 20, 25); background: white;">"The hypocrisy and racism of the Western world is transparent and appalling," he said.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Century Schoolbook", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866667px;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1739639598857240862" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Democracy Now! on X: "Reverend @MuntherIsaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, delivered a powerful Christmas sermon on the war in Gaza and why the world must stand with Palestinians. "The hypocrisy and racism of the Western world is transparent and appalling," he said. https://t.co/NrdNOKFtl0" / X (twitter.com)</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Christmas Eve sermon in Bethlehem<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" style="width: 225pt; background: rgb(235, 247, 255); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="image001.jpg" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA39E1.01ED3A80"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;"><div style="margin-left: 12pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; margin-right: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(39, 39, 39);">Reverend @MuntherIsaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, delivered a powerful Christmas sermon on the war in Gaza and why the world must stand with Palestinians. "The hypocrisy and racism of the Western world is transparent and appalling," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" style="width: 225pt; background: rgb(235, 247, 255);"><tbody><tr><td width="25" style="width: 18.75pt; padding: 4.5pt 0cm 4.5pt 12pt; background-color: rgb(235, 247, 255);"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1739639598857240862" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" width="25" height="25" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/twitter.3.ico" style="width: 0.2604in; height: 0.2604in;" data-unique-identifier=""></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="padding: 6pt 0cm;"><div style="margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 12pt; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1739639598857240862" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(39, 39, 39); text-decoration: none;">Democracy Now! (@democracynow) on X</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1739639598857240862" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: gray; text-decoration: none;">twitter.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>craic mailing list</span><br><span>To send message: craic@integralshift.ca</span><br><span>To manage Subscription: http://lists.integralshift.ca/listinfo.cgi/craic-integralshift.ca</span><br><span>To Unsubscribe send email to: craic-unsubscribe@integralshift.ca</span><br><span>To Subscribe send email to: craic-subscribe@integralshift.ca</span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>