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 part of us that doesn’t even know the need for resurrection. We will need some of His fierceness as we wrestle for our soul, as we experience Holy Week, and as we raise our voices to oppose injustice and inequality. Jesus showed that fierce love overcomes. This is the One we follow.
