On Good Friday, Christians confront not only the death of their saviour but also the challenge which the columnist Polly Toynbee put like this (writing in The Guardian on 5 December 2005): 'Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed himself in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to?'
These six talks preached in the Three Hours service on Good Friday 2006 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London offer a response.
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