Topic
The Cross
Getting to the Crux of Calvary
Each atonement theory highlights a truth about the Cross—but none more so than Christ's substitutionary death.
June 4, 2012
Proof of a Good God: 'Crucified Under Pontius Pilate'
Why this 'factoid' from the Nicene Creed is key to ending our nightmares about God.
April 5, 2012
He's Calling For Elijah! Why We Still Mishear Jesus
"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me" was a cry of vindication, not despair.
April 4, 2012
The Gospel at Ground Zero
The horrors of 9/11 were not unlike those of Good Friday.
September 9, 2011
Why the 9/11 Cross Should Offend All of Us
The symbol might actually cause 'dyspepsia, symptoms of depression, headaches, anxiety, and mental pain and anguish.'
August 18, 2011
Mercifully Forsaken
There is a reason Good Friday is called good, and why we can be thankful when God forsakes us.
April 21, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI Points Fingers on Who Killed Jesus
Jews bear no collective guilt for crucifixion, he says.
March 2, 2011
A Resurrection That Matters
If we are completely saved from our sins through the Cross, what's the point of the empty tomb?
April 1, 2010
A Crescendo of Wonder
Why Good Friday services are not designed to be funerals for Jesus or exercises in guilt.
March 31, 2010
There's Power in the Blood
On the heels of the Twilight Saga's success, Christian novelists are tapping the riches of vampire mythology.
February 19, 2010
Point of Crisis, Point of Grace
Why it's crucial to recognize how little we're being transformed.
January 21, 2010
Surveying the Wondrous Cross
Understanding the Atonement is about more than grasping a theory.
May 27, 2009
When Hope Feels Like a Fool's Errand
What the Cross and Resurrection teach us about forgiveness.
April 6, 2009
Love Letters
Driscoll and Breshears explore the many-splendored atonement in Death By Love.
January 13, 2009
Stations of the Cross — Without the Cross
Episcopalian liturgy for Stations of the Millennium Development Goals truncates the gospel, critics say.
March 6, 2008
Nothing But the Blood
More and more evangelicals believe Christ's atoning death is merely a grotesque creation of the medieval imagination. Really?
May 1, 2006
'It Is Finished' But It Is Not Over
God's work of redemption continues in the redeemed. An excerpt from Cross-Shattered Christ.
March 24, 2005
When the Giver of Eternal Life Thirsts 
A meditation on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ .
March 24, 2005
God's New Family
Rethinking Jesus' words. "Woman, behold thy son … behold thy mother." An excerpt from The Seven Last Words from the Cross .
March 24, 2005
The Fountain Fill'd wth Blood
Mel Gibson is drawing on a long tradition of Cross-centered devotion.
March 1, 2004
When God Declares War
The violence of God can only be understood in the shadow of the Cross.
October 28, 1996
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