[Opinion] Facing away, Franciscan horseshoe theory, and a moon, if you can keep it

Facing away, Franciscan horseshoe theory, and a moon, if you can keep it

Happy Good Friday friends,I intend this to be a short newsletter, since this of all days is better spent in contemplation before the Cross than reading (or writing) my opinions on anything.For myself, the great temptation of the day is to give in to a kind of pious sentimentality, to consider the Cross only as mawkish spectacle and Christ as a figure somehow deserving of, or interested in, my pity.The sufferings of Christ, of course, deserve my …