Recent comments by presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann have stirred up the discussion about gay marriage once again. While speaking to a group of high school…
06
Aug
2012
Timothy Wotring
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Timothy Wotring
Timothy Wotring is a graduate of Eastern University in Saint David’s, PA. Currently, he lives in West Philadelphia with other alternative living practitioners. This summer, he is working with Broad Street Ministries Youth Initiative. He enjoys reading all kind of different theologies including liberation, feminist, and postmodern.
Preface: Lately, I have been contemplating who will be in the kin-dom of God. In the Parable of the Wedding Feast (Luke 14:15-24), Jesus said that those who will come into the kin-dom are the “the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.” After reading the rest of the kin-dom parables, and watching Beasts of the Southern Wild, this is the poem that sprung up within me.
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god calls the lowly, the foreigner,
the strange, widows, adulterer,
the prostitute and the middle manager
working to survive
to rest
god desires the misspeller, girls playing
house and abused mothers,
beggars, crusties, and the misunderstood
transgendered male
to rejoice
god seeks the bruised cantaloupe, the rotting
apples, diseased celery, god seeks overwatered broccoli
and beetle-bitten beans
to resurrect
god sends away the rich, the wise, the schooled,
those who have cabinets full and four bank accounts,
those who house cars, who buy healthcare
for their pets, the middle class
to reject
god chose what is low and despised
in the world, things that are not,
to reduce to
no-thing things that are. 1 Corinthians 1:28
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