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Latest The Rev. Stephen McKinney-Whitaker Blog Articles
Labor Day and the Kingdom
The Rev. Stephen McKinney-Whitaker (PCUSA)Can I be honest? I’m not real excited to preach on Mark 4:26-32, especially before Labor Day. I’m just not sure we, and maybe I really mean I, will like what the text has to say. I think it might give us a message we don’t want people to hear. It’s a dangerous text, especially for our impressionable youth. I fear what the results of this text could be.
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Taking Stock
The Rev. Stephen McKinney-Whitaker (PCUSA)
It's been a hectic couple of weeks for the stock market. It all started with the S&P's downgrade of the US credit rating that led to massive drops in the stock market over a few days. Then, we had a couple days of significant gains, but we aren't back to where we were before this all started. I noticed a couple of things as I read articles about the losses and gains. Fear is the consistent descriptive factor when the stock market suffers losses. Investors are fearful of another recession, so they sell. Investors are fearful of what the credit downgrade could mean, so they sell. Fear drives many of the decisions on Wall Street. On the other hand, hope is also a driving factor on Wall Street. When investors saw a few modest signs that the economy might not be heading toward another recession, they had hope and began to buy again. Fear and hope live on Wall Street, and in large part determine the financial landscape of our country.
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