“It is the person of Jesus, unjustly tried and murdered by the state, that makes me understand we are not alone. It is the knowledge of the cross and the glory of the resurrection, it is the power of the Spirit, the presence of God, the hope of the church — not just in the sweet by and by. It is the hope of the church in the nasty here and now that causes us, you and I, to keep working.”
– Diane Moffett, president of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, preaching in a service of lament on June 1