As you well know, Easter, unlike Christmas, is a moveable holy day. This year it is on April 20, but next year it will be on April 5. If you have ever perused the back of the Book of Common Prayer during a boring sermon you will find a complex...

Our many years of observing Palm Sunday with the waving of branches and shouts of hosanna have made us so familiar with the story that we have perhaps lost a sense of what is so odd about it. For the story of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem is a strange...

The writer of our story from John this morning clearly wants us to see Mary and Judas as contrasting examples from whom a lesson is to be learned. Obviously, Mary is the positive example, receiving Jesus’ praise, support, and protection, and Judas is the negative example receiving Jesus’ rebuke, and...