O is for Overthrow, as in to overthrow the reigning political priorities, to re-prioritize

18. Wherever that Sermon on the Mount was re-preached this week, there was political preaching. Wherever the preacher effectively re-prioritized his hearer's needs, upstaging capitalist Mammon with the Friend of sinners, there a message was sent to the capitalist advertising industry, there shock-waves rippled out into a consumerist economy, there the worshipers of longevity had second thoughts, there people in debt were less prone to intimidation by their lenders, there politicians gained independence from their handlers and owners, there even teenagers were less bribable by the threat of allowances withheld, or less cowed by the new styles in raiment, there the contributions dropped off to those scare-pitches which traffic about "worrying about the morrow."

19. Wherever that Sermon on the Mount was re-preached this week, basic human value was re-allocated authoritatively, losers beset by their own nobodyness became somebodies, the lowly estate of God's handmaidens was "regarded" (angesehen, as Luther put it) and (as he punned) those lowly ones gained faces (Gesichter) and personhood. Once that happened, there was no telling what lengths the re-valued person would go to for the sick and the slaves and the in-laws, for improving the health delivery system and the savings and loan business and the advertising industry.

20. Any preaching with that sort of political potential ought publicly to be identified as the political thing it is, if only to render it more so.