" Up against deep hurt, loss, yearning, and brokenness we are often thrust into silent loneliness.....The church often matters to so few people because the church has not been able to face reality. It has been the place of positive denial. But the church cannot be a place of love, the Love known through the crucified God, unless it is willing to abandon its hyperpositivity, abandon its need to be safe and clean, ad instead seek to wrestle in the dirty pathos of human yearning. "

― Andrew Root , The Promise Of Despair: The Way Of The Cross As The Way Of The Church (Living Theology)