The Embodied Gospel
Channel: The Episcopal Diocese of Texas
Date: 2020-06-07

A sermon from Bishop Andy Doyle.

We cannot begin to dismantle the institutional violence, nor much of the world’s evils, if we do not begin by re-embodying the Gospel. 

We cannot disembody God’s embodied Gospel and creation. This means we cannot separate out, for instance, protection of goods as if they were more valuable than the protection of bodies.

God came, embodied; Jesus encountered the powers of that day with a new word, a living word, that would be victorious. An embodied Gospel is one that chooses to take an active role in the narrative making of this country, believing with hope in the dignity of all bodies. The embodied Gospel has an imagination that remembers dignity and what it might mean to be a society that outgrows its old stories of disembodied peoples of color. 

Let me be clear. We will go nowhere if we do not begin by understanding that bodies and their dignity are to be protected by the community and the nation.