The People of Holy Week: Simon of Cyrene

What follows over the next few days will be short reflections on three people who appear in Mark’s Holy Week narrative. These are not meant to be exhaustive or definitive articles. Rather, they are some of what I have been pondering this Holy Week. Simon of Cyrene is just mentioned once in each of the […]

The Power of Holy Week

Power is a real problem for Christians. We live in a world that expects and rewards those who seek or have power. Jesus calls us to a different sort of power which often can look like failure. By societal standards the second greatest “sin” in our world, after lack of power, is failure. But Jesus […]