Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills.

Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God’s embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.

... the death of Jesus took place in a space where God was thought to be absent. It was a space in which God's revelation would not occur, a place that could not witness to divine glory; it was an anti-epiphanic space, for it was the place of the skull.

Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.

Such is the reason for avoiding shame and keeping margins concealed for it is there where fragility is made manifest.

... a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...

[The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.

[The cross] is a way of life that we live out. It is a practice that involves risk. It is a story that, if truly told, courts danger but moves also into hopeful solidarity, the solidarity of those who are moved by the pain of God in the midst of this world, or by the pain of the world in the midst of God.

The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.

Can God be so powerful as to surrender all power? And the answer was yes!