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Deeply Rooted: When Truth Clashes with Power

  • First United Methodist Church Bloomington 219 East 4th Street Bloomington, IN, 47408 United States (map)

We hope you'll join us for this hybrid in-person and live-streamed Classic Worship service at 10:00am in our sanctuary. It is not necessary to RSVP for this service.

The story of John the Baptist’s beheading is a gruesome mix of lust, seduction, political ambition, scandal, murder, and family dysfunction. For centuries, this tragedy has captured the imagination of artists, writers, and musicians like Titan, Caravaggio, Oscar Wilde, and Richard Strauss. But in the Biblical context it moves beyond tragedy to point to the great struggle between truth and power. How do we read our own tragic stories, and even in the darkness, catch glimmers of God’s grace?