Maundy Thursday (Year 1, NL)

The psalmist’s declaration of love is also a declaration of voice.

Whatever the historical reasons for the crucifixion, the Christian tradition has always insisted that one of the reasons Jesus died is me. 

What is a preacher to do with Palm/Passion Sunday?

Matthew’s Passion doesn’t show us Jesus’ reactions. We just see his pain and hear his silence.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.

In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.

Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.

Why Howard Thurman dedicated his autobiography to a stranger

Minister and veteran David Peters invites us to consider our own post-traumatic identities in a new light. 

In Oberammergau, the keepers of a centuries-old tradition have made
big changes—including efforts to expunge antisemitic material.

What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?

“Each of the typical approaches has problems. The best solution would be to change the lectionary.”

There is something about the wail of a bagpipe that seems especially appropriate this Sunday.

The Passion reveals the many gods of my own making.

What does it mean to protect women and girls?

Matthew's writing is terse. This hasn't stopped some from imagining grimmer details.