Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we take kid questions about the Bible, theology, or God,

and find scholars who can answer them, in words regular people can understand. This week, we are

continuing our series on Lent and Easter, the seasons in the church calendar where we reflect on our

sin, practice repentance, and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ Christ and look forward to our resurrection.

Today we're talking about Good Friday, the day in the church calendar when we remember the

crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. For those of us who grew up in the church and have attended

many Good Friday services, we might miss how strange it is that we call

this day good. We've spent many episodes now in this series emphasizing that the death of Jesus was

especially cruel, dehumanizing, shameful, torturous. But then the one day on the church calendar

that we spend specifically focusing on it,

dwelling on it, facing it fearlessly, we call that day good. But why? Why wouldn't we call it

regrettably necessary, unfortunately important, required, essential, demanded, but horrible.

This is an important question for us to answer, not only to figure out why we call this day

one thing over another, but because the fact that Christians call this singular historical event,

the day men killed God on a cross.

The fact that we call that day good is central to the Christian faith.

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Dr. Joshua Jip, thank you so much for joining me today.

Yeah, I'm happy to be here.

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