The Power of Suffering Love | Sojourners

The Power of Suffering Love

Our readings move from Friday to Sunday, from death to new life. Friday, in Christian reckoning, is a null-point wherein the power of God is defeated by the empire of force. But the church has found in that Friday shut-down the transformative work of God, because this God works in and through weakness and vulnerability as the door to new life. It is a Friday truth that suffering love has transformative power that the “executioners” never suspect.

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Sojourners Magazine April 2010
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