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In his Good Friday sermon Glynn Cardy focuses on the problem of Good Friday for both traditionalists and progressives, where is love in the midst of abandonment.\n\n"Some paint Good Friday as God the Father and God the Son working out a deal. \u201cLook kid,\u201d says Mr Deity, \u201cif you want to save the world you got to do this suffering number. I\u2019ll look the other way, and you just hang in there.\u201d \u201cOkay Dad\u201d, says the kid, \u201cI\u2019ll try not to look sad.\u201d Both are said to be acting in and out of love. Good Friday is just the pain before the gain.\n\nThe problem is that it doesn\u2019t take much to figure the deal is morally bankrupt. Loving fathers don\u2019t freeze their feelings and let their sons be tortured and killed. The means does not justify the ends. If God were all loving then God would have intervened. End of story. So either God couldn\u2019t have intervened [not all powerful] or wouldn\u2019t intervene [not all loving]. The cosmic deal doesn\u2019t stand up to scrutiny when you have an anthropomorphic deity who is supposedly the final word on love." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=322&id=718.