From Michael Carden’s Jottings
It’s Holy Week, for Christians the week that commemorates the final week of Jesus’ life leading up to his execution by the Romans and the Jerusalem Temple authorities and then following that his resurrection the first Easter or as most non-Anglophone Christians know the day, Pascha (Paska, Paques, Pasqua etc). Over at the Jesus in Love blog, Kittredge Cherry is running a queer version of Jesus’ Passion in daily instalments from Palm Sunday to Easter/Pascha Sunday. Each instalment includes an excerpt from her novel, Jesus in Love, with a “queer-Christian” painting by different artists. I am very impressed by most of the paintings she’s included so far and I’m glad to be able to read extracts from her novel – I’ve yet to get a copy for myself. It’s definitely worth checking out. Indeed you can check out each instalment individually almost like a queer Stations of the Cross: Read more
