postmodernpilgrim

"Reconciliation is not something accomplished by Christ for God, nor inflicted on Christ by God, but forged by God through Christ. This wreaks havoc on the medieval (but still widespread) doctrine that Christ's death functions to placate an angry or offended deity. Rather, the "crucified God" represents a fundamentally restorative initiative by the Divine victim towards the human offender." -Ched Myers, from the Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, E-News Aug.-Sept. 2008

The Triumphal Entry... "For more than two years, Jesus had been engaged in a public ministry.... He had learned much. So sensitive had grown his spirit and the living quality of his being that he seemed more and more to stand inside of life, looking out upon it as a man who gazes from a window in a room out into the yard and beyond to the distant hills. He could feel the sparrowness of the sparrow, the leprosy of the leper, the blindness of the blind, the crippleness of the cripple, and the frenzy of the mad. He had become joy, sorrow, hope, anguish, to the joyful, the sorrowful, the hopeful, the anguished. Could he feel his way into the mind and the mood of those who cast the palms and the flowers in his path? I wonder what was at work in the mind of Jesus of Nazareth as he jogged along on the back of the faithful donkey." -Howard Thurman, from The Inward Journey this past Sunday night, offered a prayer station to my students i called "the road to Jerusalem". i go...

Read Wendy Wright's entire article at inward/outward by clicking here . Her experience at a veneration service in a Spanish Catholic community is both deeply moving and humbling as we approach Good Friday and Easter. Scroll down to read the comments as well. I especially like "Jesus is the seamless garment that unites us all."