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USA Today–God is found in the wilderness for Passover, Holy Week

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Kendall Harmon

A reverend, a rabbi and a scholar hike up a mountain ridge …

It sounds like the opening line of an unholy bar joke, not a spiritual warm-up for the beginning of Passover for Jews and Holy Week for Christians, leading toward Easter.

But these three believers say skiing off in winter cold, hiking in desert heat, even taking a senses-awake walk in the park can open you up, body and soul, to better appreciate these holy days of salvation and freedom.

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2 comments on “USA Today–God is found in the wilderness for Passover, Holy Week”

  1. TLDillon says:
    March 24, 2010 at 11:03 pm

    I can see this as being a great way to begin and go through Lent.

  2. driver8 says:
    March 25, 2010 at 1:20 am

    “Jesus did all his ministry outside,” says Foster, 49. Ordained in the Metropolitan Community Church, United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ, she left behind the congregation she started in Berkeley, Calif., to teach and lead retreats in the mountains where, she says, “I’ve always known my soul lives.”

    Outside, she says, there are no boundaries, no privileged believers who are closer to God than you are.

    I enjoy the wilderness as much as the next person but the romantic idyll is slightly overplayed here. Jesus and the group around him journeyed into the largest city in Israel for Holy Week.