Chore Day May Post A Longer Piece Tonight

I HAVE A MOUNTAIN of apples to turn to apple sauce to can and other harvest chores.  Thank heavens.  I had thought it was going to be a total disaster what with the spring drought and then the summer floods.  My onion crop is a total loss, as is my garlic, but other things have made up for that.

In lieu of going on about the depressing political situation and the catastrophic environmental and public health situation, I'll leave you with a sermon by Walter Brueggemann on the central Exodus story and how it is the essential thing in our lives.   Listening to his statement about the essential politics of the Christian church not being conservative or liberal but Exodus politics seems to me to provide a far more useful label for traditional American liberalism based on egalitarian commonwealth than the words "liberal" or "leftist" or "progressive."  

I'd have to figure out the form of the word.  "Exodus democrat," "Exodus egalitarian,"  "Mosaic liberal," . . .   But anything that would separate the egalitarian democratic, economic justice ideology from the disastrous 18th century, inegalitarian, anti-democratic, economic injustice "liberalism," Neo-liberalism, would be good.  

Americans of the real, can-gain-office-and-change-laws left need to get shut of all of that nonsense or it will never work.  Basing it in the Scripture Tradition and following it as possible and even as seems risky will do us better than the alternatives.  I think the Biden presidency might offer something of a real-life test of that idea.