Prophetic Indictment

Jul 8, 2026  •  The Rev. Charlie Holt

Twenty-seven grievances against George III give the Declaration the shape of a prophetic lawsuit, like those Amos and Isaiah brought against unjust rulers. Following John Locke's long train of abuses and his ship bound for Algiers, the session asks when submission to a government becomes complicity, weighing Romans 13 against Peter's resolve to obey God, and turns to the deleted grievance against the slave trade and Frederick Douglass's 1852 Independence Day oration.