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cross be raised again at

the center of the marketplace

as well as on the steeple

of the church. i am

recovering the claim that

Jesus was not crucified in

a cathedral between two candles,

but on a cross between

two thieves; on the town

garbage heap; at a crossroad

so cosmopolitan that

they had to write His title

in hebrew and latin

and in greek... at the

kind of place where cynics

talk smut, and thieves

curse, and soldiers gamble.

because that is where He

died. and that is what

He died about. and that

is where church men ought to be,

and what churchmen should be about.

-Ian Thomas