Commentary from The Christian Century , August, 1999. At Religion Online . The Challenge of Christian Living . At Religion Online . Jesus calls us to costly obedience.
Discipleship comes with a price tag shaped in the form of a cross.
Mary C. Boys, Cross Currents , 1994. At Religion Online . The will of God prevails even when the Son of God is crucified. In that very crucifixion God has absorbed the contradictions of historic existence into Himself. Thus Christianity transmutes the tragedy of history into something which is not tragedy.