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Betray All Palm Sunday – Plague Epistle VII

Betray All Palm Sunday – Plague Epistle VII

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

The Time is Out of Joint – Plague Epistle III

The Time is Out of Joint – Plague Epistle III

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

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

I am in Brooklyn, New York and I am writing a bleak theology while cloistered with the rest of my city. I do not know what these epistles, these letters, these dispatches are to become. But I am writing them, because they give me relief and we are alone together in this time of real uncertainty.