What is it about the cross that redeems the darkness of violence in our lives? Clay questions that it is the traditional explanations the church has offered. "Someone who studied physics recently told me darkness doesn’t really exist. Darkness is simply the absence of light. An interesting notion as darkness seems so very real. We resist the notion because darkness gives evil a place to reside. It is a place of fear from our earliest childhood memories and why parents invest in cute little nightlights for the nursery. As young children it is the place of 'ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night.' " Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=448&id=821.