When I was still a rookie in ministry, every year as Easter approached, I found myself intrigued by a local United Methodist Church’s newspaper ad for their Maundy Thursday service. “What is Maundy Thursday?” I would mutter to myself. The name sounded odd to me and, for no reason at all, strangely sad. Each year, I purposed to investigate, but never did. Fast forward nearly three decades and I’m finally getting around to it. I recently sat down with two ministry friends, pastors of local United Methodist churches, to ask the question, “What is Maundy Thursday?”
