The first night of Passover is also Good Friday this year. It seems appropriate. Our family is both Jewish and Christian, and we try to observe as much of our mutual holidays as we can. For me, as a pastor, the double observances deepen my understanding and devotion during Holy Week, where the resurrection is linked to the ongoing action of a God who is committed to liberation wherever there is oppression, whether from struggles within myself, or from external, systemic forces. The power of the Exodus story, next to the Crucifixion brings me to prostration every year.  This year, for many reasons, Holy Week, for me, is all about liberation, naming the powers, unmasking them, and interrupting the destructive force of hatred. The Cross is the Holy Intervention, as we would say in pastoral care, a life-giving intervention, a life-saving intervention.