[Magdalen] A thought from Nadia

[Grace Cangialosi]

Yes.

> On Apr 11, 2017, at 5:10 AM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> IIRC, the blog is called The Sarcastic Lutheran
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, she is! I've seen her twice in Richmond and read her books. She also
>> has a blog, the name of which escapes me at the moment, and her sermons are
>> posted there.
>> I've almost gotten used to her tattoos...
>> 
>>>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 10:48 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I got a chance to see/hear her in person a couple of years ago. She's
>>> amazing.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I love her, too!
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:05 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>>>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> From Nadia Bolz Weber
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here’s what I have to say about Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Maundy
>> Thursday,
>>>>> Good Friday and the Easter Vigil):
>>>>> 
>>>>> Two thousand years ago in the middle-east, there had to have been
>> crowds
>>>>> who shouted praise and friends who betrayed and followers who denied
>> and
>>>>> women who wept and soldiers who mocked and thieves who believed. It
>> would
>>>>> have happened like this even if the Jesus event were happening now
>>>> instead
>>>>> of then. Even if we knew everything in advance – were we the ones on
>> the
>>>>> street we too would shout Hosanna and a few days later shout crucify
>> him.
>>>>> And that’s the good news when it comes down to it. Because these people
>>>> of
>>>>> the Holy Week story are we people. And we people are the likes of which
>>>> God
>>>>> came to save. God did not become human and dwell among us as Jesus to
>>>> save
>>>>> only an improved, doesn’t make the wrong choices kind of people. There
>> is
>>>>> no improved version of humanity that could have done any differently.
>> So
>>>> go
>>>>> ahead. Don’t wait until you think your motivations are correct. Don’t
>>>> wait
>>>>> till you are sure you believe every single line of the Nicene creed (no
>>>> one
>>>>> does all the time!). Don’t worry about coming to church this week for
>> the
>>>>> right reasons. Just wave branches. Shout praise for the wrong reason.
>>>> Eat a
>>>>> meal. Have your feet washed. Grab at coins. Shout Crucify him. Walk
>> away
>>>>> when the cock crows. Because we, as we are and not as some improved
>>>> version
>>>>> of ourselves…we are who God came to save. And nothing can stop what’s
>>>> going
>>>>> to happen.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- Nadia Bolz Weber
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Christopher Hart
>>> 
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