Series: The Ten Commandments
The Sixth Commandment:
Sacred Life, Sacred Love
Exodus 20:13, NRSV
Matthew 5:21-24, NRSV
Romans 13:8-10, NRSV
Reflections
An ambassador is the official representative of her government; in a sense she bears the image of her nation. Now imagine that a foreign government seizes the ambassador and kills her. That wouldn’t simply be murder of a single human being; it would also be an act of war against the government the ambassador represents. In a similar way, one person’s murdering another person is an act of war against God. It is an attempt to murder God by killing one who bears his image.
— Timothy Peck
- SF City Hall Wednesdays 9:30pm Violence Prevention
- “Life after Murder” by Nancy Mullane at City Arts & Lectures
- Murderers at the lecture
- learn to dignify their victims
- remorseful, repentant
- their lives with victims are interlocked forever
- Grace and redemption for Moses, and to have him to deliver the commandments
- David Brooks’ NYT article: When the Good do Bad
- Students at University of Texas writing essays about their murder fantasy
- We are have rage/anger with murderous thoughts
- We dehumanize others, as is the case in WWII calling Jews rats, in Rwandan Genocide Tutsi cockroaches
- We kill one another with hatred
- You know are you in faith community when we hurt each other, knowingly or not, but we also reconcile with each other
