The Plague Epistles

So begins Holy Week in April, the cruelest month, in the midst of our creeping, wheezing plague. And today, Palm Sunday, is when we begin our collective betrayal of the Son of Man. Who else shall be betrayed? Today, we read in Matthew's gospel the Liturgy of the Palms of how Jesus fulfills Jewish prophecy

Yesterday was the first day this plague overran my mental defenses. I sat in my chair for long spells staring. Time languished and curdled with disuse. I felt like I was waiting for something that would not leave. I heard church bells as I looked for my car, only to find that it had been

If there is one thing to do to pass one's time isolated during plague, it's writing... What is it about plague that compels us to write about it? "Writing through Plague - Plague Epistle V"

Beware Republicans and their devotion to that child-devouring idol, Moloch! I am reading First Things' R.R. Reno, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Glenn Beck, and other conservative luminaries recommend abandoning the elderly to the plague to preserve their American way of life. How much more blatantly can such soulless imperialism devour human flesh and frailty?

"The time is out of joint," says Hamlet. So, too, is ours. - Plague Epistle III