Baptists and Methodists are in abundance

as well as believers

by other names

in the Lone Star state of Christians.

Yet, like slavery

that thrived in the Bible Belt

for generations,

justice, mercy, and compassion

appear to be in short supply.

The Affordable Care Act

was not expanded in the great state of faith

by the powers that were,

the same powers that be.

CONFESSION OF GUILT

By Dietrich Bonhoeffer

From Ethics

The Church confesses her timidity, her evasiveness, her dangerous concessions. She has often been untrue to her office of guardianship and to her office of comfort. And through this she has often denied to the outcast and to the despised the compassion which she owes them. She was silent when she should have cried out because the blood of the innocent was crying aloud to heaven.