St. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I like her sermons: http://sitandeat.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/ripeness-and-rot-.html
After the Palms
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,
The Killing Joke
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,