Category: The Cross in the Midst of Creation
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Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance
Lenten Series: #6, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance The terrible silence of God in response to Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane was more than a deathly stillness. Mystics have felt it too,…
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Jesus, Resister: Palm/Passion Sunday
Image: “Bad Day on Wall Street,” Russell Brutche, used by permission Lenten Series: #5, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Chapter 5: Jesus and the Powers,” in Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Jesus, Resister: Palm/Passion Sunday All four Gospels portray the religious leaders criticizing Jesus’s…
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Reflecting on the Cross: The Sweetness of Tears
Lenten Series: #4, Spiritual Foundations of Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Practicing Prayer: The Depths of God,” which is Chapter 9 of Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Reflecting on the Cross: The Sweetness of Tears “The tears you shed, my sorrowful friend, are purer than the laughter of…
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The God Who Creates is the God Who Saves
Cherry tree in late snow, image by Sharon Delgado Lenten Series: #3, Spiritual Foundations of Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Creation Crucified: The Passion of the Earth,” which is Chapter 4 of Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. The God Who Creates is the God Who Saves “I lift…
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The Temptation of Jesus: Resisting Cultural Possession
Image used with permission by Mr. Beardy Arts Lenten Series: #2, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Chapter 5: Jesus and the Powers,” in Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. “The Temptation of Jesus: Resisting Cultural Possession” There is a call in life to come to…
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Today I Heard God Speak to Me
“The Earth is the Primary Revelation” Thomas Berry Today I heard God speak to me in the voice of a Black-headed Grosbeak. Its familiar warble rose above the cacophony of bird song and brought me to tears. Tears of joy at a Pentecost ongoing, the Divine continually speaking to us in languages we earthlings can…
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Easter: Living a Resurrected Life
Easter this year is filled with paradox. How can we understand and celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus when ignorant, cruel, and ideologically driven men in high places dominate public policy and endanger the world? In the midst of the “shock therapy” being administered by the second administration of Donald Trump, who continues to be supported…
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Holy Saturday: Following Jesus
On this Holy Saturday, the last day of Lent, we continue to reflect on the story leading up to the death of Jesus and on what relevance that story has today. What does it mean to follow Jesus in this time of ascending evil, destruction, scapegoating, and death? First, what it does not mean: Following…
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Good Friday: Not a Transaction
Today is Good Friday, the darkest of days, when Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus and stand by him in his suffering. It is also a dark season in the world, with the Trump Administration endangering global security, targeting immigrants, abandoning climate legislation, dismantling the social safety net, eviscerating education, and unleashing corporations to wreak…
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Maundy Thursday: Gethsemane and the Will of God
“The terrible silence of God in response to Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane was more than a deathly stillness. Mystics have felt it too, in the dark night of the soul in which everything that makes life worth living dries up, and hope disappears from life. Martin Buber called it “the eclipse of God.” –Jürgen Moltmann…