Faces of Our Faith: The Penitent Thief | Luke 23:32-43 | 8.9.26

On the hill outside Jerusalem, one man dying next to Jesus joins the mockery. Another does something no one else does that day — he tells the truth, and then asks for the smallest thing anyone asks for in all of Scripture: "Jesus, remember me." Drawing on the work of Dr. Melva Sampson and the Equal Justice Initiative's Community Remembrance Project, this sermon asks a different question than the one we're used to. Not "are we bad people?" but "what kind of world crucifies people and calls it...