On The Eve of Passover In The Year of Our God 33 I, Jesus of Nazareth, son of Mary and Joseph, on this, the eve of my last day on earth, do hereby offer my last will and new testament. To the one who will betray me and deliver me into the hands of my executioners,…
April 10, 2014 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Each year at the beginning of Lent I try to come up with a new discipline to guide me through the passion of the season. And each year I inevitably return to the same forty day devotional that I discovered in a musty second hand…
April 3, 2014 One of the great liberation songs for African-American slaves tells the story of Mary of Bethany weeping at the death of her brother Lazarus. “Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep” is a classic Negro spiritual that offered the hope of freedom by telling a coded story: urging Mary not to weep for her…