

Good Friday's fetishization of inhumanity
I'm struggling with Holy week this year. It feels like I've removed a pair of hypocrisy-filtering sunglasses and am seeing various "celebrations" in a new way. Today is the day people memorialize the brutal murder of a child of God for proclaiming that deconstruction is a profoundly necessary thing, and call the event "good." Our town hosts a "community walk" with "Jesus" dragging a not-quite-life-size lynching tree from church to church. Christians are supposed to celebrate