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b'This is another special episode as we are going to read three different passages. Different, and yet they fit nicely together. Somehow these passages form a beautiful reminder that God is in our midst and is for us: the oppressed, the minority, and the marginalized.\\nEpisode TranscriptBrian: Welcome to the Queer Theology podcast!\\nFr. Shay: Where each episode, we take a queer look at the week\\u2019s lectionary readings. We\\u2019re the co-founders of QueerTheology.com and the hosts for this podcast. I\\u2019m Father Shay Kearns .\\nB: And I\\u2019m Brian G. Murphy.\\nB: Hello, hello,\\xa0 hello! Today is Sunday, September 29, 2019. We are going to be doing something a little bit different this week. We\\u2019re gonna be actually reading three different passages: 2 from Psalms and 1 from Amos. As we were looking over the text over this week, we found that they just went really nicely together. Sort of came at same idea from a few different angles. We wanted to talk about them all. So we are going to do a little popcorn back and forth. I will read to you right now, Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16.\\nLiving in the Most High\\u2019s shelter,\\ncamping in the Almighty\\u2019s shade,\\nI say to the Lord, \\u201cYou are my refuge, my stronghold!\\nYou are my God\\u2014the one I trust!\\u201d\\nGod will save you from the hunter\\u2019s trap\\nand from deadly sickness.\\nGod will protect you with his pinions;\\nyou\\u2019ll find refuge under his wings.\\nHis faithfulness is a protective shield.\\nDon\\u2019t be afraid of terrors at night,\\narrows that fly in daylight,\\nor sickness that prowls in the dark,\\ndestruction that ravages at noontime.\\nGod says, \\u201cBecause you are devoted to me,\\nI\\u2019ll rescue you.\\nI\\u2019ll protect you because you know my name.\\nWhenever you cry out to me, I\\u2019ll answer.\\nI\\u2019ll be with you in troubling times.\\nI\\u2019ll save you and glorify you.\\nI\\u2019ll fill you full with old age.\\nI\\u2019ll show you my salvation.\\u201d\\nFS: And I\\u2019m going to read for us Amos 6:1a, 4-7\\nDoom to those resting comfortably in Zion\\nand those trusting in Mount Samaria,\\nthe chiefs of the nations,\\nto whom the house of Israel comes!\\nwho lie on beds of ivory,\\nstretch out on their couches,\\neat lambs from the flock,\\nand bull calves from the stall;\\nwho sing idle songs to the sound of the harp,\\nand, like David, compose tunes on musical instruments;\\nwho drink bowls of wine,\\nput the best of oils on themselves,\\nbut who aren\\u2019t grieved over the ruin of Joseph!\\nTherefore, they will now be the first to be taken away,\\nand the feast of those who lounged at the table will pass away.\\nB: And this is Psalm 146\\nPraise the Lord!\\nLet my whole being praise the Lord!\\nI will praise the Lord with all my life;\\nI will sing praises to my God as long as I live.\\nDon\\u2019t trust leaders;\\ndon\\u2019t trust any human beings\\u2014\\nthere\\u2019s no saving help with them!\\nTheir breath leaves them,\\nthen they go back to the ground.\\nOn that very same day, their plans die too.\\nThe person whose help is the God of Jacob\\u2014\\nthe person whose hope rests on the Lord their God\\u2014\\nis truly happy!\\nGod: the maker of heaven and earth,\\nthe sea, and all that is in them,\\nGod: who is faithful forever,\\nwho gives justice to people who are oppressed,\\nwho gives bread to people who are starving!\\nThe Lord: who frees prisoners.\\nThe Lord: who makes the blind see.\\nThe Lord: who straightens up those who are bent low.\\nThe Lord: who loves the righteous.\\nThe Lord: who protects immigrants,\\nwho helps orphans and widows,\\nbut who makes the way of the wicked twist and turn!\\nThe Lord will rule forever!\\nZion, your God will rule from one generation to the next!\\nPraise the Lord!\\nThis is the word of the Lord! Amen!\\nFS: Yeah! I\\u2019m so struck by, I mean, you have this passage, freeing prisoners, protecting immigrants, helping orphans and widows, and this idea that Bible isn\\u2019t political. It\\u2019s just blown out of the water, right? We see this over and over again. That you can\\u2019t say that the Bible doesn\\u2019t talk about politics. All three of these passages are about kings, and people with political power, and people with a lot of money, and who God is on the side of, and God is clearly on the side of'