On Palm Sunday, during the reading of the passion gospel, my three and a half year old learned that Jesus died. On the one hand, I was swelling with parental pride for his calm attentiveness and understanding of the story. But on the other hand, I was worried about how this new information would begin processing in his young mind.
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Okay. Take a deep breath. Holy Week is almost upon us and yet, no matter the planning that goes into
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When I was in high school, I had the opportunity to visit the Holy Land with my family. We were
For many families, attending church on a weeknight is challenging, to say the least. School, sports, lessons, orthodontist appointments –
If Palm Sunday’s approach to the Passion skips too quickly through the events of Holy Week, I would propose an approach to Good Friday that reverses the balance
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Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.
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My fondest memories of my father focus on the times we worked together. My father knew how to fix everything
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In my experience, many pastors and ministry leaders approach the death of Jesus much too casually with children.
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Apparently, there are different kinds of ‘alone.’
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Palm Sunday will be here in just a few short days and I am not ready for it. I’m not ready for Holy Week as a priest, as a parent, or as an individual person trying to follow Christ. And yet, it’s coming.
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