“The cross saves, not as a vicarious punishment or an atoning sacrifice or satisfaction of God’s honor or as a perfectly obedient act—all those accounts of the cross that have become problematic for contemporary persons, especially since the lessons of white feminist, womanist, and liberation theology. The cross saves because in it sin and death ha

Thus we must ask: why and how did the early disciples, shattered as they had been by the crucifixion of their master, regroup and go out to face persecution for declaring that in him the hope of Israel had quite literally come to life?

The context and content of Daniel 9 thus point to a complex grid of meaning for Mark 13 and its parallels: YHWH’s final faithfulness to the covenant, and his rescue of his faithful ones, is to come about paradoxically through the destruction of the rebuilt city, and also through the cutting off of an abandoned ‘anointed one’. These, I suggest, are

Faith is the gift to trust that the narrative shape of Jesus’s death and resurrection is the constitution of reality. Though you experience negation, through this negation your person will be bound to the person of Jesus. Faith is not knowing, or even committing to, information or religious participation but is rather experiencing the very narrativ