Category - crucifixion

Outrage at beheading and crucifixion in Saudi Arabia

staff writers — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:01:00 +0100

Human rights groups have deplored the execution and crucifixion which took place in Saudi Arabia yesterday. Ahmed bin 'Adhaib bin 'Askar al-shamlani al-'Anzi was beheaded and his body crucified publicly in Riyadh.

The cross is anti-sacrificial

Giles Fraser — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:36:17 +0100

The Cross of Christ is God's identification with the victim, says Giles Fraser. It abolishes the order of sin and death by abolishing sacrifice, not sanctifying it.

Crucifixion and Abu Ghraib

Jennifer Halteman Schrock — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:41:54 +0100

The crucifixion reminds us that God is well acquainted with places like Abu Ghraib, says Jennifer Halteman Schrock. May the suffering that Christ endured while on trial as a “terrorist” fill us with compassion.

Being on the side of the crucified

Savi Hensman — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:25:47 +0000

In a reflection on faith and human rights for Easter, Savi Hensman argues that issues of life and death and the question about whether Christians are on the side of the powerful or the powerless go to the heart of the Gospel story.

An unsettling Gospel – Rowan Williams on Jesus' trial

Alison Goodlad — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:37:14 +0100

Alison Goodlad revisits a book which is fast becoming a Christian classic and discovers that the most famous trial in history is as much about the incapacity of a world like the one we have constructed to comprehend the love of God, as it is about why Jesus stands before Pilate.

Good Friday calls for a human change of heart, says archbishop

staff writers — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:46:18 +0100

Easter calls all people – including those in the churches – to recognize the suffering they cause, and to seek a change of heart and direction, says Dr Rowan Williams in his Good Friday message.

New chocolate Jesus appears down under

staff writers — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:36:01 +0100

Following the creation of a controversial naked statue of a chocolate Jesus by an artist in New York, Christians in New Zealand have hung a picture of a chocolate Jesus on the country's busiest street.