The Dove Is a Different Kind of King

"I still find it difficult sometimes to explain Jesus came with a political message, but he didn't come in the way of seeking to unseat Rome," she says. "He came actually to submit to them, but by submitting to them, he actually subverted them." The cross is so beautiful because it is that submission and subversion meeting on that Roman cross where he was installed as the king on the cross by submitting to Rome".