cross
What does the cross mean for people with disabilities?
David McLachlan proposes a participatory atonement in which God engages creation’s contingency and vulnerability.
by Aaron Klink
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
Why I’ve come back around to substitutionary atonement
Sometimes sacrifice is an act of love.
Why Orthodox Christians see triumph in the cross
Not just suffering
Meditation on a crucifix during class
Why is the Jesus on that crucifix so small?
The cross overshadows him, dwarfs him. This is what I think about in my Aquinas class.
Within the cross
At the least-visited museum in Rome, a marble cross caught my attention. It depicts the Madonna and Child and the warm tangle of their intimacy.
The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant, by Michael J. Gorman
For there to be a heresy about the cross, there would have to be an orthodoxy about it. Michael Gorman argues that contentions over how Jesus saves lead to an inadequate grasp of what the Passion means and does.
reviewed by S. Mark Heim
My fear of the cross
In Sunday school I colored in Jesus’ crown of thorns, brown for brambles and red for dripping blood.
Essential books: Fall books
Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of essential titles on Revelation, evangelism and theodicy.
Why the cross? God’s at-one-ment with humanity
Some questions won't go away. The creed says Jesus was crucified "for us," but what do those two little words mean?
Essential books
Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of top titles on the book of Job, atonement and children's ministry.
Christmas and the cross: Luke 2:22-40
Simeon offers a subtle instruction to Mary: remember the cross.
Spectacular failures
At church, the loser appears right above the altar.