Tag: political

  • Between the Fifth Sunday of Lent and the Passion (Year B)

    Between the Fifth Sunday of Lent and the Passion (Year B)

    The gap in the text this week is all of the events of Holy Week and what they represent: a political execution of a political dissident.

  • Living the Dream

    Living the Dream

    In our rush to live in a just world, we may find ourselves preventing the very means of making things just — that we are called to this.

  • Change: what does it take to like it?

    Change: what does it take to like it?

    It is hard to square a posture that leans away from change when the gospel itself is fundamentally about change.

  • One Week: Finding Jesus in our approach to Holy Week

    One Week: Finding Jesus in our approach to Holy Week

    Palm Sunday  |  Mark 11:1-11   Learning Holy Week I must have been 9 or 10 when I realized that the story didn’t make sense. I could follow the main elements of the story. I could make sense of the basic plot points. But there were holes. And the way we told it just confused…