and awkwardly the integrity of the cross, and refuses to let it be trivialized, canceled, or absorbed. Again and again, when called upon to define its own faith, explain its gospel, or summarize the tradition of which it is the steward, the church has spoken, implicitly at least, of the second day as marking the death of Jesus Christ off from his rising. Whereas in the narrative of John, where the cross itself means triumph, and the day between the days is already the day after salvation’s climax,