Over the past decade or so, Holy Saturday has become one of my favorite parts of Holy Week. In a world of twenty-four-hour news cycles, constant change, and consistent demands to do more with less, Holy Saturday offers a beautiful opportunity to pause. Even though it’s a day when on the surface, nothing is happening, … Continue reading Harrowing the Hades Within: A Reflection for Holy Saturday 2023
Good Friday is a day when time stands still. It’s a moment when all is laid bare, when everything has been said and done, when, as Jesus put it, “It is finished.” As I stand at the foot of the cross on Good Friday, I often have a sense of God asking me, “So now … Continue reading God is Dead (And We Have Killed Him): A Reflection for Good Friday 2023
It’s a truism to say that humans are innately social creatures. Belonging to a community was for all of our evolutionary and cultural history, necessary for survival. It’s no surprise then, that we are a species of copycats: from how we pick up words and behaviours as small children (there is no more eager house … Continue reading Do This in Remembrance of Me: A Reflection for Maundy Thursday 2023
On Holy Wednesday, we remember the story the betrayal of Jesus at the hands of his disciple Judas. What was Jesus’ great crime for which Judas was willing to betray him? Basically, it was simply for not being who Judas thought he was. What makes this line of thought ironic is that it means that … Continue reading Betrayed: A Reflection for Wednesday in Holy Week 2023
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the late, great Black feminist thinker Audre Lorde’s words, “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.” It was a warning to marginalized communities against co-opting the tactics the powerful have used against them, for that only serves to perpetuate the cycle of injustice rather than to … Continue reading The Master’s Tools: A Reflection for Tuesday in Holy Week
Matthew Root 