“Maybe this crazy thing
happened: God came down in a suit of skin and bones, and walked and talked, and
offended people, and finally they tortured him to death. And by that death he
destroyed death; he rescued us and gave life everlasting and every other good
thing. Into this universe crammed with pain we say that God came down, because
he loves us with the kind of love that we can only understand by thinking of
how a parent loves.” —Religious author and commentator Frederica Mathewes-Green,
“God as Suffering Parent,” Beliefnet, December 22, 1999, reprinted in The
Best Christian Writing 2000, series editor: John Wilson (2000)
The image accompanying
this post, The Crucified Christ, was created in 1610-1611 by Flemish
artist and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).
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