Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Good Friday, April 3, 2026.
Sermon - Good Friday 2026 - The Rev. Elizabeth Maxwell
Lessons
You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 52:13–53:12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 10:16-25; John 18:1–19:42.
The picture above is of a panel from a Bible Quilt by African American artist Harriet Powers (1837-1910). Powers was born into slavery near Athens Georgia in 1837. She was married and had at least nine children. She is remembered especially for two Bible Quilts, one in the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and the quilt to which this panel belongs, which is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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