Follow up for Palm Sunday...

If you haven't seen this story in today's New York Times, it is worth the effort as it continues to give context to what is sometimes reported as an anti-Catholic story. As much as I am conflicted by the theological narrowness of the current Pope in Rome - and as clearly as I celebrate and affirm my Reformed tradition - I am also equally committed to the goals of honest ecumenism. And faithful sharing of the truth - and this OP ED article helps both causes. Check it out:
www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28allen.html?ref=todayspaper

This link, from Union Seminary, is good, too: like me the author wonders about the theological and human choices that were made throughout the unfolding of this tragedy. Good food for thought.
http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2010/03/28/wheres-the-dictatorship-of-relativism/

Worship today embraced the sad beauty of the tension of Palm Sunday where Christ's joy is prelude to his passion. Our little guitar dudes - and their singing partners - rocked the house. It was a joy to have our children with us in worship - and for an incredible feast afterwards - before they head off to Quebec City. And the congregation seemed grounded in this strange journey into Holy Week where we renew our commitment to the counter-cultural grace of God made flesh in Jesus.

Michael Meade writes: It is our knowledge of death that makes us pray. Every path a child takes looks precarious to the parent's eye. And it is - for precarious is an old word that means full of prayers... And so we enter Holy Week - and confront the death of Christ - and what it speaks to us of God's love.