The Second Missile
Minab, American power, and the lie we tell after the killing
My dear ones,
Yesterday the New York Times reported that a preliminary U.S. military investigation has determined American forces were responsible for the Tomahawk strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. At least 175 people were killed, most of them girls between seven and twelve.
The president had already blamed Iran. The investigation was already underway when he said it.
This week’s notes don’t offer a tidy homiletical framework. They sit with a phone call a father received from his daughter’s school, the lie told after the killing, and the question of what repentance means when the sin is still in progress. It’s Lent. I don’t think we get to look away.
I hope these notes are useful to you as you prepare to preach this week. As always, take what serves your congregation and leave the rest.
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Be gentle and brave,
Derek
