Their dead hand is on every flower, their stink on every sunrise. God will provide for the Lamb. And we have come to see that this did not mean immature mutton, but God's own Life, laid down to shield us all. Isaac should be one of the patrons of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and old Abraham an honorary member. The fourth reading, from Exodus, shows us the exit from the house of bondage.
Nobody lives in somebody else's back yard.
There's nothing here in the way of an exception for Manifest Destiny or the Monroe Doctrine. Those who pick your breakfast bananas should decide who is to be Top Banana in the banana republics, and Big Enchilada Bush should roll his own tortilla. God will be present in the renewed and restored people of the land. Isaiah saw it coming. The sixth reading sees that liberation is to be offered to everyone, and there isn't a price tag on it, as the televangelists tell you.