Embracing the Cross of Christ
We must embrace the cross, though it may sound as though we Christians glory in weakness, cruelty, suffering, and death.
Inhabiting Job in Lent
Now in Holy Week, we remember where we began: with ashes smeared on our foreheads.
Holy Week is for enchantment
Between Palm Sunday and Easter stands the holiest, the most enchanted, of weeks.
On the precipice of Holy Week
Palm Sunday is to me the most disorienting liturgy of the year.
The river at Eastertide
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
“My soul eats twice”: the strange alignment of Annunciation and Passion in 2016
The Holy Spirit "speaks" through the calendar, and this becomes a proclamation of the purest sort: the kind that the "heavens" rather than the Reformed pastors "declare."
From kingdom to truth
The Word preached that one last time to that practical philosopher Pontius Pilate, and he spoke of the truth.
Maundy Thursday and the architecture of remembrance
In what way is this night, to use the words of God to Moses and the people of Israel, a "memorial" (Ex. 12:14)?