UNAFFECTED
BY HORROR

Topics: Atonement; Awe; Blood of Christ; Cross; Crucifixion; Holy Week

Reference: Philippians 2:5–11

It is curious that people who are filled with horrified indignation when a cat kills a sparrow can hear the story of the killing of God told Sunday after Sunday and not experience any shock at all.

—Barbara Brown Taylor, God in Pain (Abingdon, 1998)