Want to do something special for Easter week? I recommend being uniquely and ostentatiously generous. Seriously. Keep reading and I’ll explain why. Jesus said we will always have the poor with us. There are various…
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! Today is truly a glorious day! The dread of Friday is past, the silence of Saturday is shattered with amazing news. Jesus Christ lives! The hopes…
Today is traditionally called Holy Saturday, Joyous Saturday, Great Saturday or Black Saturday. Jesus is dead, buried, gone. His body lays motionless in a guarded tomb. God is mute, as Pete Greig said in his…
Today is Good Friday (or Great Friday, in the Orthodox tradition). Jesus is tried, executed, buried, and descends into hell. It’s a sham trial, of course. And a brutal death on the cross. I wrote…
Today is traditionally called Maundy Thursday and has focused on such things as the sleeping disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane, the anxious Jesus praying fervently, and of course the Last Supper that Jesus had…
The Wednesday of Holy Week was the calm before the storm. Jesus continued to teach in the Temple and preparations were made for the Passover, but the day was uneventful otherwise. The Last Supper, the…
Jesus spent a lot of time in an olive orchard this week. What is often called “the Olivet Discourse” was probably a Tuesday evening discussion with His disciples, sitting together in the grove as they…
Today is Pigeon Monday. Or at least that’s what I call it. Hopefully I’ll start a new trend. It would seem that Jesus had something against pigeons. That’s evident from the story of Him tearing…