" now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us by the Father through the crucified one. . . . [T]he more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.3 (Arnold, 81) "

― Shane Claiborne , Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us