Jesus and the Cross: Rejection and Resurrection

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This is a repost of my last year’s Huffington Post, “Jesus and the Cross“.

I hate to be rejected. Don’t you?

No one likes rejection. Yet, we experience rejection and its pain from an early age. Children feel hurt when, on the playground or in other settings, they are not allowed to play a game with the rest of the kids. Childhood rejection may even be self-inflicted, when we resent the fact that we are afraid to climb up to the top of the Jungle Gym.

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Jesus and the Cross: Rejection and Resurrection

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cross, Crucifixion, Easter, grace ji-sun kim, Jesus, rejection, resurrection, The Huffington Post

This is Holy Week.  Here is my latest piece for The Huffington Post.

I hate to be rejected. Don’t you?

No one likes rejection. Yet, we experience rejection and its pain from an early age. Children feel hurt when, on the playground or in other settings, they are not allowed to play a game with the rest of the kids. Childhood rejection may even be self-inflicted, when we resent the fact that we are afraid to climb up to the top of the Jungle Gym.