Forget waving palms and foot washing. Union Theological Seminary’s President Serene Jones is re-styling Holy Week in the school’s e-newsletter as “The Holy Week of Resistance” in which the suffering servant makes way for a generous serving of liberation theology:
“Too often, the Jesus that we remember is white as snow and would be fine with the ‘family-friendly’ Easter bunnies, spring picnics, and chocolate eggs that abound. Yet the first-century brown-skinned refugee Jesus wasn’t crucified because he was such a friendly neighbor. He was crucified because he threatened to overturn the violent ways of the Empire.”
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