Resurrection is resistance
John 11: 17-45 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE March 22, 2026 Photo taken in a village in Guatemala of a Raptor energy drink bottle lying in a dusty dried up cornfield with a yellow daisy-like flower growing nearby. Every Lenten season in Antigua Guatemala there are weekly processions and celebrations on Saturday and Sunday. When we walked back to our hotel last Saturday evening after dinner, the cobblestone streets were jammed with onlookers and blocked traffic as women and men dressed in black carried a 20 foot platform of a Christ the King figure dressed in purple with one of the saints kneeling before him and Mary Magdalene dressed in red behind him. The earsplitting sound of fireworks to ward off evil spirits whistled and streaked through the air just up the next block. The next day on Sunday afternoon, another much larger procession came through the city square, this one depicting the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrow—the path that Christ carried his own cross...
