I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town’s garbage heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan they had to write his title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek…At the kind of place where cynics talk smut and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble, because that is where he died. And that is what he died for; that is what he died about. That is where Christians ought to be and what Christians ought to be about.
-George McLeod, founder of the Iona Fellowship