Palm/Passion 2025 + 4/13/25

M. Campbell-Langdell Luke 19:28-40 Praise the Lord! Amen? A pastor at our Lenten Caravan last week said this and got what to him was an unsatisfactory response. You see one of the joys of our Lenten Caravan – and there is one left on Wednesday if you have been missing this- is the variety of worship styles in each congregation to which we travel. One congregation has sedate but lovely hymns, emotive but calm preaching and purple lighting. Another has gospel tunes and loud engaging preaching that strays back and forth from the text but brings it home eventually and others are a mix, but we all gather together, week after week during Lent. For soup or fish or chili. For brownies- a decadence in the midst of fasting, and mostly to be together and also raise funds for a local organization, Community Action. But back to the pastor. He said Praise the Lord! And folks quietly said Amen or Praise the Lord, but he pushed back- he said no, you can do better than that! Prais...