A Homily for Good Friday. Readings: Isaiah 52:13–53:12 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1–19:42. I now preside at the same altar I frequented as a child.

After Jesus receives word about Lazarus’s condition, ... they were unnerved for a good reason: "Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, ...

On Good Friday, we stand with the nonviolent Jesus as he suffers torture and execution at the hands of the empire, yet remains centered in the God of love, forgiving and nonviolent to the end.

In some good news for its fans all around the world, the most translated film of all time, the JESUS film which premiered in 1979, has received a modern, 21st-century remake.