The Panama Papers and a Call to Change
This sermon was preached on the morning of 10th April 2016, in the wake of the breaking of the story of the Panama Papers. In preparing for the sermon, I realised that it would feel somewhat divorced from reality if it did not deal in some way with the news that has dominated the media and conversations all around the world this week. The readings were Zephaniah 3:14-end , Psalm 30 , Acts 9:1-20 and John 21:1-19 . What a week it’s been for the world’s elite. Of course, by ‘elite’, I, like most of the English speaking world, mean the super-rich. It’s funny that we don’t really use the word to refer to the most faithful people in the world, or the most hopeful, or most charitable and loving. No – this week has not been especially remarkable for them ; but, for the wealthiest people in the world, it’s been somewhat of a worrying one. I refer, of course, to the leaking of the Panama Papers to the media. These papers showed how many world leaders and movers and shakers used offs