S5 E27 Worshipping on Holy "Loving" Wednesday with Eric Huntsman
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Here are some resources for your Holy Week studies:
https://www.outofthedust.org/ (then click on Holy Week at the top)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/welcome/easter?lang=eng
In this episode Kerry and Eric Huntsman discuss what is traditionally called "Spy Wednesday." Instead of exploring the darker side of this day, they talk about the uplifting elements, especially focusing on the anointing of Jesus and the loving acts we can associate with it. Eric renames it Loving Wednesday and talks about traditions that could be associated with it, especially bearing witness of Christ and most especially focusing on being blessed by women who bear witness of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to another one of our special editions. |
| 0:14.1 | Scriptures are real episodes. |
| 0:16.0 | This is part of our Holy Week series. |
| 0:19.0 | And today we're doing Spy Wednesday or Holy Wednesday. |
| 0:22.2 | And I'm glad to have back with us, the guy who helped us kick this off. |
| 0:25.6 | Thanks for coming back with us, Dr. Huntsman. |
| 0:27.4 | This is Eric Huntsman, a wonderful scholar and colleague and friend. |
| 0:32.1 | And we're going to talk about how do you celebrate Holy Wednesday? |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, so this is an interesting one. |
| 0:38.9 | If Good Friday and Palm Sunday were unfamiliar to us when we're growing up in the church, |
| 0:43.8 | Spy Wednesday, Holy Wednesday, that wasn't even a thing. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, it's the invisible day in some ways. |
| 0:48.3 | And because of the way sometimes the book of Mark was read. Because Mark actually gives us |
| 0:56.0 | the chronological framework for the week. |
| 0:58.1 | He is what we call relative time markers. |
| 1:00.4 | So you can see where each day |
| 1:02.0 | starts. At least that's where the traditional |
| 1:04.0 | days came up with. But there's a question about whether you counted |
| 1:07.9 | inclusively or exclusively to |
| 1:10.1 | pass over. So there were a lot of people |
| 1:13.5 | who thought that no events had been recorded for Wednesday. And this was particularly common |
| 1:20.4 | among we call the English Divine. So these were Anglican churchmen in the Church of England. |
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