tag: good friday

The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Luke 23:55, NRSV Good Friday can be a confusing space for a people oriented toward redemption. We are tempted to pay quick tribute to Good Friday only as a necessary stepping stone to Easter…

I remember a particularly disastrous piano recital from my teenage years. Since my toddler brother was sick, my parents had sent me off to the recital early with the promise that one of them would try to attend. I noticed with a start that my father was standing in the back doorway of the sanctuary…