James Talarico

It's a fascinating story.

At the end of the world, Jesus gathers all the people and all the nations.

So it's us as individuals, but it's also us as communities, as societies.

And the story says that Jesus is gonna tell some of us, depart from me because I was hungry and you didn't feed me.

I was sick and you didn't heal me.

I was a stranger and you didn't welcome me.

And then we're going to respond and say, Christ, when did we see you hungry or sick or a stranger and not help you?

And then he replies, what you do for the least of these is what you do for me.

People are always finding Jesus in a piece of toast or a stain on the wall.

But we're not finding him where he told us we would find him, in the poor, in the sick, in the needy, in the bombed, in the starved, in the oppressed.

And so I'm not preaching a progressive Christianity.

I'm preaching a biblical Christianity.

Yeah, thank you for asking that.

You know, I'm a pretty calm person.

I get that from my dad.

My dad is like unflappable.

No matter what's happening around him, he's just steady.

And he gave that gift to me and I'm very thankful for it.

When I was diagnosed, I just kind of took in the information.

I had questions.