Easter

Tonight was the last instalment of four of BBC’s The Passion, showing on television over holy week. It was an unusual departure for the normally resolutely secular BBC, and much talked up by faith communities. I had decided to give it a miss, having been disappointed by previous efforts to represent Jesus on screen or in drama. But I got drawn in – mainly because I wanted to know what people would be talking about.

EASTER RISING

This is what ought to happen on Easter Day:

Danutz has posted a wonderfully irreverent, subversive, thought-provoking, and even illuminating reflection on Palm Sunday on his blog. I think he may be in rather too much of a post-liberal hurry to get from Jesus’ politically motivated protest march (Borg and Crossan’s reading, if legitimate, is brilliant) to a Palm Sunday demonstration outside his local ‘exclusive country club’ - there’s a lot of narrative context that gets missed out along the way. But it’s a darn sight more exciting than making palm crosses. Please read it.