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Continue reading →: Not the Messiah We Are Looking For
Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week. On Palm Sunday we remember Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. Jesus travels on a borrowed donkey, The crowds hail him as “Son of David” – meaning the king. The writer of the Gospel of Matthew tells us “the whole city was in turmoil,…
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Continue reading →: Doing Lent
“What are you doing for Lent?”, someone asked me the other day. I replied, “Nothing”. I tried for several years to “do” something for Lent. Some years I tried giving something up. We give up something as an act of solidarity, as an act that remembers Jesus’s suffering. But, honestly,…
