Madeleine L'Engle – The Irrational Season

Madeleine L’Engle on Palm Sunday

On Palm Sunday in the Cathedral the congregation participates in acting out the Gospel, and we are the mob, and I choke as I shout out, “His blood be on us, and on our children. Crucify him! Crucify him!” I choke not because it is something I would never under any circumstances say, but becauseContinue reading “Madeleine L’Engle on Palm Sunday”

The Cause of the Leper

And it occurs to me that Jesus couldn’t have cared less about the cause of the leper or the rights of the leper. But when there was a leper in his path he did not walk around him, like the priest walking on the opposite side of the road from the man set upon byContinue reading “The Cause of the Leper”