Reflections for

Palm Sunday, Apr 09, 2017

Liturgy of the Palms: Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Matthew 21:1-11

 

Liturgy of the Passion: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 26:14-27:66 or Matthew 27:11-54

In the World

Crucifixion and the news

Apr 05, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

Among other things, Holy Week always brings to mind the tension between thinking doctrinally about Christ and thinking historically about Jesus.

From the CCblogs Network

Palms and passion

The work of Holy Week
Mar 28, 2012 by Debra Dean Murphy

It is tempting to think of the Upper Room scene in the Gospels’ passion narratives as a dreamy, candle-lit fellowship meal rather than, as

From the CCblogs Network

The political theater of Jesus

Oct 05, 2011 by David Henson

It was the zombies. Always the zombies.

Monday, the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement channeled Michael Jackson in “Thriller,” dressing up like zombies, complete with fake blood, stupefied stagger and an insatiable appetite for money.

It was blatant political theater of the absurd.

Poetry

Getting it right

Sep 14, 2011 by Luci Shaw

Jesus might have died
a dozen times before he died.

An incidental death—tetanus
from a nail, a splinter.

A baptismal drowning.
A drink from a tainted well.

Rotten fish.
Desert thirst.

A stoning, a sudden
push over the edge,

or a falling overboard in a storm.
A choking by a demon on the loose,

a bar room brawl
at the local pub.

So when it happened, it seemed
like someone

got it right. Right time,
right reason,

for God to let it
happen.

Editor's Desk

Amid messy politics

Apr 13, 2011 by John M. Buchanan

If we're following Jesus, we can't spend our lives in Galilee. We can't hide behind the popular myth that religion and politics don't mix.

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