Garret Keizer tells the story of three women...
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Garret Keizer tells the story of three women in the 1970s who entered a store that sold pornography, whips, and metal-studded dildos and splashed the merchandise with blood. "They were splashing nothing less than the Constitution, says the scribes and Pharisees. They were splashing the law. Their actions were completely 'over the top.' Yet I have found myself thinking of these women every Palm Sunday when we read the account of Christ cleansing the temple. Wasn't their point that a woman's body is also a temple and that we use the phrase 'consenting adults' as disingenuously as the money changers spoke of worship and the Romans spoke of peace? Show me the spot where those women stood to throw the blood, and I will kneel and pray there."
"Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of temple, both sheep and cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables (John 2:15).
"Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of temple, both sheep and cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables (John 2:15).
