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2025-04-13T19:01:13-04:00

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Good Friday: “Actually, he died”

Last updated on: April 13, 2025 at 7:01 pm By Vance Morgan

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The gospel reading for the Good Friday liturgy from John’s gospel begins with Jesus’s arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane and ends with Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus preparing Jesus’s body for burial and placing it in a tomb. Many Christmas Eves ago, Jeanne, our youngest son Justin, and I were invited to share dinner with a friend from work and her family, which included two precocious and very active children. On display was a beautiful crèche that contained all... Read more

2025-04-13T19:00:19-04:00

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Maundy Thursday: “Could you not keep awake one hour?”

Last updated on: April 13, 2025 at 7:00 pm By Vance Morgan

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The drama from Thursday into early Friday of Holy Week is both familiar and inescapable. The Last Supper. The Garden of Gethsemane. Judas’s betrayal. Peter’s denial. All inexorably leading to trial, conviction, and crucifixion. The elements of the story are so familiar to Christians and others that it is tempting to suppose that there are no more fresh takes or new perspectives to consider on this important but well-worn story. The lectionary Maundy Thursday gospel continues with John’s account of... Read more

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2025-04-13T18:21:54-04:00

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Wednesday of Holy Week: Betrayal or Denial?

Last updated on: April 13, 2025 at 6:21 pm By Vance Morgan

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The appointed gospel for Wednesday of Holy Week takes us to a dramatic scene in the middle of Jesus’s last meal with his disciples before his arrest (the early portions of the last supper narrative are the beginning of the gospel text for Maundy Thursday). The reading begins with Jesus observing that “one of you will betray me” and, a few verses later, ends with Jesus telling Simon Peter that “before the cock crows, you will have denied me three... Read more

2025-04-13T18:04:11-04:00

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Tuesday of Holy Week: Righteous Anger

Last updated on: April 13, 2025 at 6:04 pm By Vance Morgan

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In all three of the synoptic gospels, the first thing that Jesus does early in Holy Week is drive the buyers, sellers, and moneychangers out of the Temple, overturning their tables and causing a general ruckus. Both Matthew and Mark also report that on one of the early days of Holy Week Jesus cursed a fig tree because it had all leaves and no figs, even though it was not the right season for figs; the tree subsequently withered and... Read more

2025-04-14T11:42:02-04:00

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Monday of Holy Week: “You Always Have the Poor.”

Last updated on: April 14, 2025 at 11:42 am By Vance Morgan

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The primary gospel readings for the weekdays in Holy Week are from John’s gospel, with an alternative reading for each day from one of the synoptic gospels. John does not include a number of familiar stories from Holy Week that appear in the other three gospels (Jesus driving the money changers from the temple and Jesus killing the fig tree, for instance); as with the birth-of-Jesus narratives, one needs to pay attention to all four gospels to get the full... Read more

2025-04-11T10:53:09-04:00

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Palm Sunday and the Tongue of a Teacher

Last updated on: April 11, 2025 at 10:53 am By Vance Morgan

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Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. This year Holy Week is taking on cinematic importance for Jeanne and me. We are avid fans of “The Chosen,” a multi-year treatment of the life of Jesus. Season Five is currently in theaters in three parts, each part containing two or three hour-long episodes. The season begins with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem and ends with his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane. We saw part three yesterday–we might... Read more

2025-04-10T17:25:44-04:00

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The Bible and Penguins

Last updated on: April 10, 2025 at 5:25 pm By Vance Morgan

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In my American Philosophy class, a class that I am enjoying greatly because I have not had the privilege of teaching it in eight years, we are spending the last few classes of the semester with the work of Richard Rorty, one of the most important American philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st century. Our introduction to Rorty was his autobiographical essay “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” in which he tracks the evolution of his thought and philosophical commitments... Read more

2025-04-07T17:02:18-04:00

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How Facts and Faith Can Work Together

Last updated on: April 7, 2025 at 5:02 pm By Vance Morgan

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I am always encouraged when I find that various topics and issues that I obsess about are obsessions for others as well. As anyone who reads this blog frequently or even occasionally knows, for instance, I am obsessed with the dangers of certainty. As I regularly argue for the virtues of doubt, I am often accused of being a relativist (which in the world of truth-seeking is close to being accused of being a socialist in politics) and a denier... Read more

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2025-04-07T11:48:38-04:00

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A Poem for the Broken, Searching, and Human

Last updated on: April 7, 2025 at 11:48 am By Vance Morgan

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In The Name I often describe myself as “poetry challenged.” I usually need someone else to help me get all of the nuances of poetry–although I find beauty there, it is definitely not my natural genre. But every once in a while I hear a poem that simply blows me away, This one is from Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama, who was a recent guest on Kate Bowler’s podcast “Everything Happens” (which has been showing up here frequently over the... Read more

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2025-04-04T06:37:49-04:00

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Compost Theology

Last updated on: April 4, 2025 at 6:37 am By Vance Morgan

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A couple of days ago, Kate Bowler interviewed Jeff Chu on her podcast “Everything Happens.” Jeff Chu is a journalist, an author, a pastor, and one of the most interesting people in the progressive persons of faith atmosphere. Along with Sarah Bessey and the late Rachel Held Evans, he is one of the founders of “Evolving Faith,” a movment that fashions itself as a home for persons of faith who are deconstructing a faith that has turned out over time... Read more

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