Here we are presented with a community who followed Christ not because of a resurrection but because of a seduction. They knew what that cry of abandonment on the cross really meant, for they had lived with it for as long as they could remember. It is in this place of radical uncertainty that we, like this community, can ask ourselves why we are struggling to be faithful to Christ. Here we can ask whether it is because doing so offers us some meaning and security in life or whether our commitment to becoming Christian transcends this.
