"Nevertheless,...I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security." Jeremiah 33:6 "Were your parents liberal or conservative?" I was asked. "Neither," I said. "They were too busy recovering from the Great Depression, living through WWII, and worried about communism." Reflecting on the question and answer I realize how differently our society has evolved. Social tensions were very different. Employment, the Draft, the Atomic Bomb, and the Red Scare leading to the McCarthy investigations. Social tensions today arise around Black Lives Matter, White Supremacy, Police interaction with people, wearing pandemic masks, and conspiracy theories which sometimes result in death. I see these issues as signs of a broken relationship with God which are not part of God's will for humanity. This brokenness is called sin. God called Jeremiah to speak to Israel and has little good news for his people. Jeremiah explains the disast...