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Alix D Pridgen

Weekly sermons delivered by The Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen

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Episode 220: Christ the King in a Secular World

The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen

“Christ the King Sunday isn’t strange because it competes with democracy — it’s strange because it competes with despair. Our world is full of strongmen and cynicism, people who fear kings and people who long for them. But the Gospel points us to a different kind of King. One who meets us in our suffering, one who remembers us in our worst moments, one who says to a dying man — and to us — ‘Today you will be with me.’”

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