racism

Absalom was a slave, owned by a member of St. Peter’s, who refused to grant him freedom until he was 38 years old. So telling the story of Absalom Jones necessarily means telling a story about slavery and also a story about race: a story that should leave us discomfited by our own history and by the sanitized ways that it has so often been written and told.

When I think about the victim in today’s Gospel, the man wounded and abandoned on the side of a road… when I think about this man who had fallen into the hands of robbers… robbers who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead… I can’t help but wonder how many other …

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