‘In Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself.’ The process is hardly serene. In the detail from Lorenzo Lotto’s picture of Christ and the so-called adulteress reproduced opposite, Jesus’ calm authority contrasts sharply with the distraughtness of the woman and with the anger on the faces of her accusers. One of them is even counting out her alleged offences. Reconciliation will require much work—work which will be slow and will take quite different forms for the different people involved. This issue of The Way looks at various aspects of that process of reconciliation, of Christ working and labouring to form a new people.
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