I was delighted to read the latest update on the website Churches for Middle East Peace that announced that Eastern and Western Christianity are working to find a way to actually celebrate Easter on the same date. In a world that is literally dying for good news, perhaps a small victory in this area of agreement about the highest festival of the church year will at least symbolically assist us in our common work.
On the other hand, I spent a portion of last night watching the movie, Jesus Camp. I know it's an older film (2006) but from all indications (blogs and letters to the editor from daily newspaper and websites) the temptation to use Jesus to indoctrinate and negatively form children and adults is alive and well. I can't help but wonder if we aren't all complicit with our unwillingness to give up "being right for being loving" (Good Friday bidding prayers today from St. Paul's Lutheran, Waverly, IA).
As the above experiences intersect with the Good Friday Veneration of the Cross service I attended at noon, I am drawn even move deeply into mystery of God's grace for in Jesus Christ, for it is indeed a mystery. How can such a holy love endure when we refuse to live that love out in our life together as God's people?
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