Emphasis Preaching Journal

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.