“The best I can do is to say he is as vulnerable as it is possible for a person to be. And, for that reason, this is my image of God: God is completely and utterly vulnerable.”
The rock foundation that is built in hearing and acting on the word of Christ is another one of Jesus’ upside down images. It is not some inner steel that keeps out the floods and wind. It is instead a profound vulnerability.
The Rev. Fleming Rutledge has written a new book about the crucifixion of Jesus that is receiving wide notice across a wide spectrum of American Christianity.
Perhaps true kingship is not what it appears to be.
by Linda Ryan “The man who cannot accept the possibility of complete, radical, personal failure in the carrying out of this Christian mission is