Palm Sunday can be tricky to put together. Good Friday tends to be an easier service. So what happens when you add them together and call today Palm/Passion Sunday? Easier? Harder? Neither, really, just different. The move to Palm Sunday being combined with Good Friday came about when it became obvious that Good Friday service…
There are many puzzles in our lives going from the entertaining kind, jigsaw puzzles for example to the more important ones. Important is a very flexible word and a subjective one at that. For some, an important puzzle is why does toast fall butter side down? For others, it is how Ensteinian physics can be…
So today is Palm / Passion Sunday. I’m drawing a blank on any other day of the year that draws together two such disparate notions. On the one hand we have Jesus entering Jerusalem in triumph, lauded by the crowds with palm branches and cloaks thrown on the road before him. On the other hand…