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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: Dwell in the Darkness: John's Passion Narrative, Good Friday, and the Education of Desire / David Ford
Description: As Christians enter the most solemn stretch of the liturgical year, theologian David Ford — who spent over twenty years writing his commentary on the Gospel of John — makes the case that no other Gospel prepares you for the cross the way John does. "The right question is not so much what happened on the cross, as who happened on the cross. All through the gospel, every chapter, John is saying — who Jesus is is the most important thing." In this episode with Macie Bridge, Ford reflects on why John's Gospel resists rushing past darkness to get to Easter. Together they d...