Christ the King Sunday, celebrated on the last Sunday of the church year, focuses on the crucified and risen Christ, who God exalted to rule over all creation. As pastor Karla Conditt Daniels tells us, Christ the King Sunday was established by papal decree in 1925, to reorient the faithful after the horrors and destruction of World War I.
One hundred years later, with wars raging and the proliferation of dangerous political ideologies, we also need to be reoriented (and reminded) that the only Sovereign in life is God made known in Christ, and our allegiance belongs only to our Creator God.
I am grateful for a strong and diverse community of faith, that sometimes challenges and often clarifies where my allegiance belongs. While we may not share uniformity in our thinking I hope that we can appreciate our unity in God’s Spirit.
