“The Stations speak to us in the political, social, and economic conflicts and dilemmas that descend on us all. And to a culture, to individuals, and, sadly, even to a church that scrupulously turn away from the reality of death, the Stations speak an important word about that final frontier.”

I sat down with Mary Adams Parker and Katherine Sonderegger to talk about their book, Praying the Stations of the Cross: Finding Hope in a Weary Land (Eerdmans, 2019). We talk about their own approaches to the Stations as visual artist and preacher respectively, what we learn about the contact of the body of Jesus with the body of others across the Stations, what the Stations reveal about Mary, the power of the Stations in times such as these, finding ways to hold the together the suffering and glory of Christ, preparing art for ecclesial settings, why preaching should be invitation rather than exhortation, and why we should attend to beauty, to the sublime, when writing theology or creating artworks to the glory of God and guidance of a Christian community.