Palm Sunday is one of the most confusing celebrations in the church calendar — and if you're not yet confused, Steven suggests you don't actually understand it yet. Between the triumphal entry and the cross lies a week of riddles, symbolic actions, and a weeping king heading toward suffering. Drawing on the historical echo of Judah Maccabee's military triumph 150 years earlier, Steven shows how Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey to announce something nobody expected: a kingdom flipped upside down, and a king who lays down his life for broken, messy people.

Art by Jozef Sedmak