Evangelism - Poem

Return the Cross to Golgotha

I simply argue that the cross be raised again

At the center of the marketplace

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.

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A Blessing for the Soul

May the song within you which sings for eternity, sing loudly. Heed the songs of heaven. Dismiss the songs of earth. May the Father quiet the voices around you which tell you to settle for less than what he promises.