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Lent 2024

The Wood Between the Worlds: God Revealed In Death

March 29, 2024 • Brian Zahnd

Jesus Christ—the Logos made flesh—is the true icon of the living God. The world has at last truly seen God. And what is the climactic, definitive moment of God’s self-revelation in Christ? It’s the central event in the gospel story—the crucifixion. The cross is the pinnacle of divine self-disclosure.

The Wood Between the Worlds: One Ring to Rule Them All

March 17, 2024 • Brian Zahnd

Living between the resurrection and the parousia we much constantly choose between two ways of rectifying the world: the Cross of Christ or the Ring of Power.

The Wood Between the Worlds: How Jesus Understood His Death

March 10, 2024 • Brian Zahnd

Jesus said his being lifted up in crucifixion would accomplish three things: 1. Judge the world. 2. Exorcise the world. 3. Draw the world.

The Wood Between the Worlds: A Grotesque Beauty

March 3, 2024 • Brian Zahnd

"Beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it surely because they do not perceive it." - Roger Scruton, Beauty

The Wood Between the Worlds: A Love Supreme

February 25, 2024 • Brian Zahnd

Once a symbol of imperial terror, the cross has become the eternal symbol of divine love. When we look upon the cross today, we don’t see an instrument of torture and death; we see the supreme demonstration of God’s love. We see the lengths to which God will go to save the world.

The Wood Between the Worlds

February 18, 2024 • Brian Zahnd

The cross of Christ is the wood between the worlds. There is the world that was and the world to come, and in between those two worlds, is the wood upon which the Son of God was hung.