By Kelly Rhodes Adams Two days before Palm Sunday in rural Northeastern North Carolina, I passed a church sign that said, “Jesus is Risen! Let us celebrate the resurrected Christ.” Holy week hadn’t even begun yet. Where does our compulsion to skip the suffering come from? As a society we have become detrimentally averse to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Holy Week 2023
A place at the table
By Nell Green He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers and sisters or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, … Continue reading
“Do You Not Yet Understand?” — A Holy Week Reflection
By Rickey Letson The book Sons & Soldiers by Bruce Henderson tells the story of several Jewish young men who immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s. These sons of Germany ultimately became United States soldiers fighting against their homeland in World War II. In the military, they all served … Continue reading