Maundy Thursday

Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.

People sometimes regress to childlike behavior in stressful situations.

Peter is hardly the first person to challenge the status quo because of something God told him in a dream.

How can these values be lived out in our traditions and in our assemblies?

In a pandemic, the practices associated with Maundy Thursday feel nearly transgressive.

Paul offers a meantime ethic, a witness of the death Jesus still endures until death disappears in his return.

As he washes Peter’s feet, Jesus is thinking about Judas.

A plague is being visited on all of us, but not evenly.

Anyone who has occupied spaces where death looms knows that the experience of time is anything but certain.

Jesus is saying, Love should feel like this.

It makes me uncomfortable. That’s by design.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Feet.”

Hope smells like barbecue.

Let me cut to the chase, brothers and sisters. Is this what you think living in Christ looks like?

Here we find Jesus speaking in language both mystical and matter of fact.

The church that came before us taught us how to love worship and to care deeply for its vitality and life.

Foot washing expresses John’s vision of communion.

The enduring significance of Jesus’ act in John 13 turns on the little preposition to.