Palm Sunday

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

In the early hours of this morning at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led to the gallows among Nazi guards and hanged until he was dead. It was not Palm Sunday seventy-two years ago. In fact, Easter fell on April Fool's Day in 1945. Today, Jesus is led into the streets among joyful

EV'RY DAY I'M PASTORIN'... - EASTER MUSICAL ON PALM SUNDAY.

Palm Sunday is weird. I mean, even for Christians, Palm Sunday should be weird. In Luke, Jesus sets his face toward Jerusalem and we can almost hear the sigh of "let's do this" under his breath and the weirdness starts. We meet our hero in the midst of Chapter 19: 29 When he had come near