It could have been miserable—the pouring rain, my soaked canvas shoes, an umbrella flipped inside out by the relentless wind—but something made it sacred instead. Maybe it was the songs we sang, songs of protest and repentance inscribed on our hearts. Maybe it was the absurdity of marching through the Yale University campus following an eight foot, gold processional cross. Maybe it was the day itself: April fourth, the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thirty Yale Divinity School students and faculty gathered at noon to commemorate a Day of Sorrows in the middle of Holy Week. After an opening prayer, we dedicated a tree on our campus as the Tree of New Life, a sign of our commitment to prophetic, redemptive work in the world. Then we marched through campus, between fortresses of stone and ivy, to the New Haven Green where we walked the Stations of the Cross.
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