Bonecrusher
Armored Black Horse, by Naia-Art Lectionary: The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 14 ), AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. When I was a child, I learned to ride horses at summer camp. Our instructors assigned the other kids to gentle mares with names like Marigold or Honeysuckle. But they put little elementary-school me on the back of a great big ink-black stallion named Bonecrusher. Apparently his name had been Midnight, once upon a time, but he earned this new monicker after a number of unfortunate incidents that the summer camp didn’t want to go into. So I earned my spurs on a horse that felt twice the size of everyone else’s, and who had apparently developed a taste for blood. Suffice to say, I rode him very gingerly. All told, I might’ve preferred Marigold. The Bible is surprisingly anti-horse, which might startle some America...
