I’ve recently discovered Rowan Williams reflections on 9/11 – Writing in the dust. I was particularly struck by his comments on how we see the cross in the light of such events. He says : ‘Can we think about our focal symbol, the cross of Jesus, and try to rescue it from its frequent fate as the banner of our own wounded righteousness? If Jesus is indeed what God communicates to us, God’s language for us, his cross is always both ours and not ours ; not a magnified sign of our own suffering, but the mark of God’s work in and through the deepest vulnerability ; not a martyr’s triumphant achievement, but something that is there for all human sufferers because it belongs to no human cause’ p. 77-8
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