Contents
On the Cross

Going to the Cross · 13

The Anabaptist Radiance · 16

Christmas Eve, 1998 · 18

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me · 21

Lift High the Cross · 22

Crucifixion with a View of Toledo
by El Greco (1541-1614) · 24

Dali’s “Corpus Hypercubus”; An Ekphrasis · 26

Matthias Grünewald’s “Crucifixion” · 28

Pietà · 31

At Easter · 32

The Crucifix · 33

My Pectoral Cross · 34

Handiwork · 36

On Bearing the Sign of Christ
into the New Millennium · 37

Punch Lines · 38

Gladly the Cross I’d Bear · 40

On a Hill Far Away · 42

For a World of Lost Sinners · 43

The Light of the World · 44

Rock of Ages · 46

“I’m going to shoulder up my cross,
Going to take it home to Jesus.
Ain’t that good news?” · 48

The Old Rugged Cross · 50

In the Cross of Christ I Glory · 51

Songs · 52

Folk Song · 57

To the Crucified Christ (after Paul Gerhardt) · 58

Nursery Rhyme III · 61

E. D. on the Cross · 62

W. C. W. on the Cross · 63

Crisscross · 64

A Note to Paul Friesen · 66

In the Subjunctive · 70

Raise High the Crossbeams, Carpenters · 72

At the Foot of the Cross · 74

Good Friday’s Cross, April 18, 2003 · 78

Easter Morning, April 20, 2003 · 80

I am the Resurrection and the Life · 81

Georg Trakl’s “Psalm” · 82

The New Order · 88

Yea, Though I Walk · 90

INRI · 91

The Author 95

The Artists 96

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