Holy Week and Easter Musings 2026
Each week, we’ll offer a curated selection of blog posts that speak to the upcoming lectionary texts to help spark your imagination and serve as a thought partner for you. We hope these musings meet you right where you are with a fresh, bold, and faithful witness.
Maundy Thursday – April 2, 2026
Diana Butler Bass, “The Holy Thursday Revolution”
We return to the cross all the time. We see Thursday through Friday. From that angle, it becomes morbid. A doomed man’s final meal while the execution clock ticks.
But his friends didn’t experience it that way. They weren’t thinking about a cross or a blood sacrifice. They saw Friday through Thursday. They were celebrating Passover. They were in Jerusalem with friends and family (not just twelve guys at a long table — sorry Leonardo) at a big, busy, bustling holiday meal to commemorate God freeing their ancestors from slavery. Passover is a joyful meal, not a somber one. And, because Passover was about liberation from a hostile oppressor, it was fraught with political expectations and possibilities. Would God free them likewise from Rome? Was the promised kingdom at hand?
Laura Jean Truman, “This is a Table For All Who Are Hungry”
This is the table for the ragamuffins and failures and the ones who pick fights in seminary classrooms and the ones who don’t want to talk to God at all and the ones who have made terrible mistakes that they don’t even know how to begin repenting of and the ones who don’t think their whole embodied self is welcome and the ones who don’t know for sure if Jesus is worth it and the ones who are sure that they are not worth it.
Good Friday – April 3, 2026
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “Saved In and Through Weakness”
…we are led to Good Friday as the great performance of the saving weakness of God. On that Friday Jesus is in the hands of the power of Rome. It will of course be asserted that no one can take his life from him. In this instant, however, Rome exercised power over his body in a way that left him abandoned.
Kat Armas, “When Empire Rewrites the Story”
Empire has always been skilled at crafting narrative. Rome called crucifixion “peacekeeping,” public terror a necessary tool for order. The gospel writers knew this, which is why they insisted on telling the story Rome wanted buried. And it remains true today. This is how empire survives: not only through force, but through story. By erasing violence, sanctifying power, and demanding that the wounded doubt their own testimony.
Easter Sunday – April 5, 2026
Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort, “I’m Still Waiting on the Resurrection”
I'm waiting on the resurrection. It's only the beginning of the Easter season but the lilies will soon start to wilt and the hallelujahs will fade away. The people are whispering again, Is he really the Messiah? And I am mouthing the same questions, too, even as Jesus responds, I'm here. I've got you.
Rev. Dr. Charlene Rachuy Cox, “Defining Roads”
That same promise is for you. On whatever road you find yourself, Jesus is going ahead of you. As you travel the everyday road of your daily routine, Jesus is going ahead of you. Whether you travel the road of joy or sorrow, hope or despair, anxiety or contentment, fear or certainty, Jesus is going ahead of you, and that makes all the difference in the world.
