een the central symbol of Christian faith since the very beginning. We
put crosses up in our sanctuaries, not to make us think that the cross was
a beautiful piece of wood, for it was a dirty, bloody, rugged means of
death. But out of that death has flowed life to all the universe. That is
what this is telling us. We find it described very clearly in chapter two
of this letter, in the words, "And having disarmed the powers and
authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by
the cros