Rather than a contextualized rejection once again of what the cross represents, we must let it rupture and reorganize the particular forms of self-sacrifice that God desires to perform through us. And if we don’t grapple with the cross’s violence when we do this, then it becomes all too easy for us inadvertently to repeat that violence in the mode of its consolidation rather than disruption. It becomes all too easy to block the violence we see, or sometimes only fear, is directed at ourselves in ways that actually do deflect it on to others.
