A Good Find

"I simply argue that the cross he raised again
at the center of the market place
as well as on the steeple of the church,

I am recovering the claim that
Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral
between two candles;

But on a cross between two thieves;
on a town garbage heap;
At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan
that they had to write His title
in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek...

And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut;
and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.

Because that is where He died,
and that is what he died about.
And that is where Christ's men ought to be,
and what church people ought to be about."

written by George MacLeod