Station 1
Jesus is Condemned to Death
We lament the end of affirmative action, the rolling back of federal civil rights protections, and the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
As soon as it was morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate. And they all condemned him and said, “He deserves to die.” When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. Then he handed Jesus over to them to be crucified.
“Black people did not need to go to seminary and study theology to know that white Christianity was fraudulent….. Nothing their theologians and preachers could say would convince us otherwise. We wondered how whites could live with their hypocrisy—such a blatant contradiction of the man from Nazareth….White conservative Christianity’s blatant endorsement of lynchings as a part of religion, and white liberal Christians silence… ” – James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Let us pray.
God is my light; I will not be afraid. All I ask is to live in God’s house all the days of my life. Deep within me a voice directs my eyes to look for the face of God. I am not afraid; I know that I shall see the goodness of God. Amen.