Sermons

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The sermon linked above was given at St. John's, Lafayette Square, to honor Frederick Douglass, Prophet for Freedom and advocate for justice. Born into slavery in 1818, Douglass escaped to freedom and spent his life fighting for the abolition of slavery, racial justice, and human dignity. He wrote,

The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church going bell chime with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.

Douglass denounces false, deceitful Christians. And that church bell he mentions? Quite possibly the Revere bell at St. John's which sits across from the White House and the former slave pens of Washington D.C. The pens are gone, but the bell remains, and sadly, the lies and deceit ring out again.