Thank you, I just recommended A Peoples History of Christianity to a Friend. and then I came to your cottage. I will order your newest book! and let her know about it too. I was introduced to the two processions last Sunday. and Crossan et al was used as a reference but the rest of the sermon led me to a spiritual advisor. Nuff said . Thank you for clearing up even more! I know which parade I am in and have. Again thank you for your contributions to the scholarship of the Jesus Movement. Rag tag as we are!
I am in Jesus' parade. This fallen world continues to fall into the bottomless pit of sin and ultimate permanent death. It's so hard for me to comprehend the hate that is tolerated by so many. Forgive them, Lord for they know not what they do.
Beautiful, Diana. I, too, have been grieving over what has just transpired in Georgia. It is sickening. Palm Sunday has always been a big event in my life. Now I must read the book. Thank you. I wasn't aware of the second parade either.
I, too, discovered Crossan and Borg's text and have preached Palm Sunday the same. I love the way you've interwoven the relevance of this day to Imperial Rule and its efforts to continually oppress others. Spot on! Keep going and thanks for your thoughtfulness and scholarship. Great Job!
Some 50 years ago, to receive my doctorate from the Hebrew Union College, I marched in a procession at Cincinnati's Plum Street Synagogue alongside new rabbinic-school graduates about to be ordained. As we emerged onto the sidewalk from the downstairs robing room and wound our way outdoors to the main sanctuary entrance, a similar procession, just across the street, departed the downstairs level of Cincinnati's Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, bound likewise for the Church's main entrance. For 50 feet or so, we walked on opposite sides of the street, marveling at the coincidence of two faiths, two processions, mirroring one another. Given your lovely observation here, Diana, I'd like to believe that we were in the same procession, dedicating ourselves to God and God's purposes rather than to whatever a modern-day Pontius Pilate would be urging upon us.
Fascinating and very timely. My pastor shared a very similar message this morning at "Zoom" church. Thank you for posting this. It is eye opening and thought provoking.
The Last Week is a profound book. I'm reading it AGAIN...a last week-Lenten tradition to blend with the Scriptures. Its words are rather like a vaccination against the danger of slipping into the wrong parade. That can happen in small, unintentional ways. Thank you for this reminder, Diana.
I am intentionally in Jesus' parade. I fear that like most white people, I slip from time to time. Jesus threatens those who benefit(ed) from Caesar's parade. I am all for open housing, but I want my neighborhood to work for my grandbabies. So which parade am I in if I think it is OK for black kids to study in our schools? "our schools" is a pernicious concept.
Rome proclaimed its emperors gods. White Evangelicalism proclaims it politicians Christian prophets. Is that heresy? Yes. Blasphemy when his father anoints
Guess I would be in neither procession you referenced in your post. Hopefully I will be in the Jesus procession that has no government empire coercion. Washington, Georgia or Evanston represent the empire in one degree or another.
I discovered The Last Week last Lent. Changed my life!! Watched everything I could find by Crossan on YouTube. Have whole new levels of meaning.
Thank you, I just recommended A Peoples History of Christianity to a Friend. and then I came to your cottage. I will order your newest book! and let her know about it too. I was introduced to the two processions last Sunday. and Crossan et al was used as a reference but the rest of the sermon led me to a spiritual advisor. Nuff said . Thank you for clearing up even more! I know which parade I am in and have. Again thank you for your contributions to the scholarship of the Jesus Movement. Rag tag as we are!
Truly, and all the more poignant when we remember the original translation of ‘Hosanna’ is ‘Save us!’
Thanks.
I am in Jesus' parade. This fallen world continues to fall into the bottomless pit of sin and ultimate permanent death. It's so hard for me to comprehend the hate that is tolerated by so many. Forgive them, Lord for they know not what they do.
Beautiful, Diana. I, too, have been grieving over what has just transpired in Georgia. It is sickening. Palm Sunday has always been a big event in my life. Now I must read the book. Thank you. I wasn't aware of the second parade either.
I, too, discovered Crossan and Borg's text and have preached Palm Sunday the same. I love the way you've interwoven the relevance of this day to Imperial Rule and its efforts to continually oppress others. Spot on! Keep going and thanks for your thoughtfulness and scholarship. Great Job!
Great preaching Diana. Thanks for the reminder of all the erasing that has happened over the years to poor Jesus.
Thank you, Diana for helping me see Palm Sunday in a radical and new way. I want to walk with Jesus not anywhere near Caesar.
Some 50 years ago, to receive my doctorate from the Hebrew Union College, I marched in a procession at Cincinnati's Plum Street Synagogue alongside new rabbinic-school graduates about to be ordained. As we emerged onto the sidewalk from the downstairs robing room and wound our way outdoors to the main sanctuary entrance, a similar procession, just across the street, departed the downstairs level of Cincinnati's Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, bound likewise for the Church's main entrance. For 50 feet or so, we walked on opposite sides of the street, marveling at the coincidence of two faiths, two processions, mirroring one another. Given your lovely observation here, Diana, I'd like to believe that we were in the same procession, dedicating ourselves to God and God's purposes rather than to whatever a modern-day Pontius Pilate would be urging upon us.
Fascinating and very timely. My pastor shared a very similar message this morning at "Zoom" church. Thank you for posting this. It is eye opening and thought provoking.
The Last Week is a profound book. I'm reading it AGAIN...a last week-Lenten tradition to blend with the Scriptures. Its words are rather like a vaccination against the danger of slipping into the wrong parade. That can happen in small, unintentional ways. Thank you for this reminder, Diana.
I am intentionally in Jesus' parade. I fear that like most white people, I slip from time to time. Jesus threatens those who benefit(ed) from Caesar's parade. I am all for open housing, but I want my neighborhood to work for my grandbabies. So which parade am I in if I think it is OK for black kids to study in our schools? "our schools" is a pernicious concept.
Rome proclaimed its emperors gods. White Evangelicalism proclaims it politicians Christian prophets. Is that heresy? Yes. Blasphemy when his father anoints
Guess I would be in neither procession you referenced in your post. Hopefully I will be in the Jesus procession that has no government empire coercion. Washington, Georgia or Evanston represent the empire in one degree or another.
Thank you and God bless.
The radical love of Jesus wrapped in a timely Palm Sunday, liberation theology meditation.