Palm Sunday represents Jesus’ challenge to us to “reconstitute the world” to use Adrienne Rich’s phrase. Pastor Elisabeth describes the “humble” entrance to Jerusalem as a fierce challenge to the dominate religious and imperial power structure by siding with the poor and using love to lift up the outcast. This love can heal the deepest…

Rev. Elisabeth Middelberg left her native land, the Netherlands, in 1984 to come to the United States. Here she completed her license as an Art Therapist, a Marriage and Family Therapist and she finished her Master’s degree in Theology at Pacific School of Religion in 2001. She started the spiritual care department at Kaiser San…