Holy Week Good Stuff

Thursday 4/2/26

Apr 02, 2026

‘Good Stuff’ = blog posts I’ve read this week that inspired, educated, entertained, or moved me.

Beloveds, we are heading into the most important part of the most important week in the life of the church.

I wish you a blessed Holy Week - may your faith be renewed by walking the way of the cross.

There’s no ‘Good Stuff’ on Good Friday - so I’m sharing the beautiful writing I’ve discovered so far this week.

God stuff

‘Word and Sacrament at the Hospital Bedside’ by Loren Richmond Jr.’Hospitals are liminal spaces—fixed between life and death. Human beings enter through birth and depart through death, often within the same walls and at the same time.’
‘Cursing at Customer Service’ by Rod Arters. ‘How close did I come to discrediting my sermon? I was about three seconds away from steamrolling a visitor at my church, without even knowing it.’

Church stuff

‘Tragic Abundance: Spring Cleaning as Mortification’ by Lane Scott. ‘A typical American, I am vastly superior at the “feasting” and “ordinary time” execution of the liturgical schedule and not so great at the fasting and mortification times…;
‘Holy Tuesday Vows’ by Charlotte LaForest. ‘What if, instead of clergy renewing their vows on Holy Tuesday, the Church renewed her vows to clergy that day?’

Other stuff

‘Dean, you gorgeous man!’ by Andy Squyres. ‘I saw all this and then I spoke. “You two are a sign and a wonder!” and they chuckled at me.’
‘50 Names. 100 Miles.’ by Julie B. Hughes. ‘Maybe you know this feeling, not from running, but from something you’re carrying right now. A hard season, a setback, or something that keeps asking more of you than you think you can handle.’

What I wrote this week:

‘Staying awake with Jesus in Holy Week’. Jesus asked his disciples to stay awake with him for one hour. They couldn’t do it - at least not yet. But we’re called again to try… Join us for virtual Vigil at the Altar of Repose.’
‘The only Good News we get today is that it’s only the first day of the week’. ‘We’ve been walking through Holy Week - remembering with our lives. Ever since the first Christians did. Ever since the first crowds followed Jesus.’

And finally…