As we all learned from the Sean Penn/Susan Sarandon movie a few years back, "Dead Man Walking" is the phrase uttered by guards and inmates as a death-row inmate takes his final walk down the prison hallway to the execution chamber.
Moving under the black weight of the imminent fulfillment of society's death sentence, the
convict literally is a dead man walking.
As gruesome as that image is, an equally grim reality comes from the testimony of our Scripture readings this morning.
Every day there are millions of men and women who spiritually qualify as dead men walking and dead women walking.
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