The New Stations of the Cross Quotes

“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governments, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the state of the world, the reality of evil, and the eye of God, who judges in a different vein altogether than courts of law, whether they be religious canons, the ecclesiastical courts, or government legal systems.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Human generosity is possible only because at the center of the solar system a magnificent stellar generosity pours forth free energy day and night without stop and without complaint and without the slightest hesitation.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the most and were considered expendable, as the birds of the air, and yet in Jesus' eyes were where one found the treasure of heaven, here, now, on earth.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross and fed on the Word of God.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Who are we aligning ourselves with? Are we aligning ourselves with the presence of God as it is abused, broken, bleeding, and mocked and scorned even now in this world? Do we take that one step down, risking insecurity, violence, guilt by association, to stand beside those who are both victim and accused, and public sinner – criminal and despised in society?”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put in simple options, it is to be human and forgive, make peace in spite of all hatred, or to be in human and kill, dividing the spoils. To be dead before you die.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power, to absolute unquestioning control over human minds and bodies; revolt against all systems and ideologies, all regimes and institutions, which continue to push individuals and groups beyond the pale, outside the gate.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering servant, the Lamb of God.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Peter's denial was not just a personal weakness. He was in a leadership position, honored as the one who spoke for the group, and was second in command (when Jesus wasn't around). But his choice to publicly deny his place in the community at the side of Jesus had massive repercussions for the other disciples. They ran and hid, and from this point on in the Way of the Cross there is no mention of the disciples again in the Passion narrative. The sheep are scattered, routed, and demoralized. Peter's sin tore open the seems that held them together.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and who love under conditions that only worsen, in a world that blames those who are poor and do not live up to religious expectations.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. It can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrusts in turn brings forth war.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“Once again the Scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark, the plumb line steadies us and steers us clear of what is happening in the world and gives us a glimpse of history and politics, economics and daily experiences from God's point of view. Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight not found in other devotional materials.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture