We have this happy assurance from our Christian faith—"God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” ...

It stands like that tree of paradise that God made into the tree of life, the cross of Jesus. But when the kindness and generous love of God our Savior appeared, not because of any righteous deeds ...

From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.