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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Speak Blessing
Description: Today we continue with the Epistle of James, written to a congregation that the writer feels has strayed. In today’s reading from chapter 3, using some analogies the writer cautions against the harmful words one can utter – a small rudder can change the course of a great ship. Rev. Will McLeane relates an account of John Lewis, about to speak in anger in the midst of the civil rights movement, who was cautioned by Martin Luther King, Jr., and another friend who both challenged Lewis to change to non-violent rhetoric, which he did, and very effectively so. The writer of Jame...