Easter 2023
"it bends toward justice"
Easter is more than a story.
It is a turning point in Western thought—the Savior as rejected, tortured and despised. The Savior dying between two thieves, viewed by both the religious and the secular authorities as a threat to peace and prosperity.
The message could not be any clearer. The cry of the accused, the hungry, the “deplorables” are the sound of the suffering of “Man.” “As ye do it unto the least …”
The Gospel has it right. We live in a world where the Easter paraders have shouted “Barabbas” and mocked the Christ.
And yet, and yet, we dare to believe, as James Russel Lowell wrote at another time of great wrong and peril.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Or in the words of Martin Luthor King Jr.
“…the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
In yesterday’s SNL opening, a Trump figure said he could have done it in “two days.” (coming back from the dead).
No, the arc is long. It is still Good Friday. But it bends toward justice.