Public faith

The cross must be raised again at the center of the marketplace as

well as on the steeple of the church. I am claiming that Jesus was

not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross

between two thieves; on the town garbage heap, at a crossroads

so cosmopolitan they had to write His title in Hebrew, Latin, and

Greek. 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 churchmen ought to be and

what churchmen should be about.

- George McLeod