Day by day, he invites us to follow him—not Marduk, not Batman, not Caiaphas or Pilate, but him—the one who would not resort to violence, not even to save his own life—the one who fought back by refusing to fight back and who replaced the myth of redemptive violence with the truth of indestructible love. Here, then, is another way to redeem the world: not by killing off the troublemakers but by dying to violence once and for all. Because he did, we can. He died to show us how. We live to show him we got the message.
Today we look on the one whom we have pierced. More important, we listen. To the silence. To the howl. What is the gospel, in the land at the foot of the cross? When God is silent, people of faith cry out. When people of faith cry out, it is God who speaks. Amen.
Barbara Brown
Taylor, God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering, 109, 114
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