Tag: Palm Sunday

  • Hosannas

    Hosannas ring through the city as the gentle king on a borrowed back vulnerable, humble, unarmed enters. Time for withdrawing to the hills is over. Confrontation comes carried along with their cries.  Who dare stand out in this crowd? From wilderness to city, calm to conflict much more than bread is broken with friends afraid…

  • Eh Jesus? Yes Peter? They’re going to kill you for that Jesus!

    Eh Jesus? Yes Peter? They’re going to kill you for that Jesus!

    After the flags and the palm branches and the manic crowd laying their cloaks in the road, the so called triumphal entry looks a little different the morning after.  It’s a bit like a party at which something unwelcome has happened half way through, or someone uninvited turns up late and a little too drunk. …