Hey everybody. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie, and I have Nathan here with me.

Hi again, Nathan. How are you? I'm wonderful. How are you beautiful? Good. We have been having so much fun.

We are in the midst of recording a four-part series celebrating some of the teachings and

beautiful wisdom of Richard Roar, who has been very, very influential in both my life and in

Nathan's life, both in my life and in Nathan's life.

And today we are going to run with another topic.

This is one that Nathan chose.

And so therefore you're going to go ahead and just lead the way, right?

Yep, happy to do it.

So this is another meditation that comes from the book called Yes and Daily Meditations.

It's sort of a best of Richard Roar.

It contains 365 of his best quotes from his various books and lectures that he's given that have been compiled. I love this book. I have

literally marked up almost every single page on it. And today I have chosen a meditation called

the sin of exclusion that I wanted to discuss with Valerie. So what I'm going to do is I'm going

to go ahead and read this three-paragraph

meditation, and then we will go back and discuss a couple different parts of it. Okay, so the

sin of exclusion. It says this, those at the edge of any system and those excluded from any system, ironically and invariably

hold the secret for the conversion and wholeness of that very group. They always hold the

feared, rejected, and denied parts of the group's soul. We see, therefore, why the church was meant

to be that group that consistently went to the edge of the group's soul. We see, therefore, why the church was meant to be that group that consistently

went to the edges, to the least of the brothers and sisters, and even to the enemy.

Jesus was not just a theological genius. He was also a psychological and social genius.

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