'"A stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles" (1 Cor 1:23), Paul writes, because it is truth. The folly of preaching Christ crucified, preaching the king who looks like a tramp, the prince of peace who looks like the prince of fools, the lamb of God who ends up like something hung up at the butcher's.'
Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth, p.60.
