“This” and The Trauma of Easter – Plague Epistle X
When we incorporate this virus into our daily rhythms and our children and grandchildren learn this time of human history, how do we explain it?
The Plague Epistles
Encountering Death on Good Friday – Plague Epistle IX
And with that, Jesus dies. Death surrounds us like we have never experienced and Good Friday strikes right to the heart. The single event of the Crucifixion overturned everything in the disciples' lives. The communal event of this plague has overturned everything in our lives. Death does not become. It always is. Today of all
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," says Hamlet. So, too, is ours. - Plague Epistle III
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.