Lent

During Passion Week, everything moves faster. We've been trudging through Lent, our disciplines starting to bite by now, and the routine has started to take on a tedium. Then Passion Week and boom, suddenly things kick into high gear: Jesus is heralded into Jerusalem and just over seventy-two hours later, we find ourselves at Maundy

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On weekend mornings, I like to go for long runs, six miles or so. I run around Prospect Park, the Central Park of Brooklyn. It's just over a mile from my apartment. Because yesterday was Palm Sunday, I saw people walking home with fronds in their hands. Some were elaborately braided, some held in bunches,

Today, many people will hear sermons and read posts about Palm Sunday and varieties of foolishness: Jesus as God's Fool, the human race being foolish towards the Gospel, and whatnot. Some people will sing Michael Card's God's Own Fool or songs from that underground clown passion, Godspell. Some will quote Paul's first letter to the Corinthians,