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“For the power in beauty is not brute strength but in the greater vision it offers, a vision to transform and redeem our suffering … art and story, image and song are powerful agents of vision, revealing the life of Christ, resisting the evil of a broken world.” (p 176-177)

p63 - “God does not stand aside from our suffering, directing it to his ends. He enters it, and by the sacrifice of himself transforms it into the space where we may know his deepest love … the body of Christ is the last broken thing, the one that in a mystery, draws every broken heart into a love so mighty that death itself turns backward within us to life.”