 Grounded in an understanding of the Jesus story as God’s empathic and liberating initiative towards humanity, the sermon makes the point that those, who live their faith by participating in God’s ongoing work of liberation and healing, need to develop practices of empathy. At a time when democracy is threatened by religious and political actors, such practices of empathy are practices of resistance against the exclusionary and oppressive agenda of white Christian nationalism.
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About the Speaker:
The Reverend Dr. Frank Woggon is the director of Chaplaincy Services for UofL Health and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UofL School of Medicine. Ordained by the German Baptist Convention and endorsed by the Alliance of Baptists, he is an ACPE Certified Educator and a board-certified chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains. Frank is married to Kelley, a colleague in ministry and chaplaincy, and they have two adult daughters, Hannah and Erin, who shine bright in Durham, NC, and in Berlin, Germany. |
