The Innocent Bystander
From the Power of Weakness to the Weakness of Power | Proper 10, Year B
When they were younger, I sat in my daughters’ bedroom one evening and read aloud to them: “Many years ago, there was an Emperor who was so very fond of new clothes…” It was a classic tell, captured and known to us through Hans Christian Anderson; the story of an Emperor who is taken in by con-artists who weave a cloth they say is visible on…