( Sermon for Palm Sunday 2026:) From Chronologies of Disjunct Appearance in Separated Space to Walking with the Continuing Presence of Opened Eternal Time-Place Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds, (PC[USA] Ret.) Core Texts: Psalm 118:19–29; John 12:12–19; Ezekiel, esp. chs. 37–47 with support from Leviticus 23:40; Matthew 21; Zechariah 9; Luke 21; 2 Thessalonians 2; Isaiah 34; Hebrews 5:13-14; Deut. 6:4-9; Matt. 22:32;37 Palm Sunday arrives this year with crisis of interpretation because it is a crisis of time. Palm Sunday is not first a pageant we make for children, a scene of religious excitement for the festal onlookers, a sentimental threshold before the Passion bound up with the zodiac’s procession of start. To interpret Palm Sunday rightly, we must begin earlier than Jerusalem, earlier than the waving of branches--tot begin where Scripture often begins when God is about to reorder history: with the disturbance of the heavens. Reports since Thanksgiving of Stra...
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Poems During Warfare Douglas Olds [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Lamenting’s Prolapse Ruling by gentle guide stood figuring the Adored? Instead pestilential secrecies chaining Croesus’ code creosote its harness, Abandoned now by recurrent calls to lament after Jeremiah’s unheeded Call to the Shema’s buckle— lev ’s twice intonation— instead gate and house built atop a creted curtain of language, electronifried— As the fell city falls because a false corner angle stoned its dethrown. Pity, pity, pit without lament Such vaporous course Channeled by history’s recursing, well...