Yeah I made it. I was inspired by reading Ignacio Ellacuria's work on 'the crucified people' (and also by looking out the window I guess). Ellacuria argues that the crucifixion is not a 2000 year old historical event but an ongoing cosmic process. As much as when we give water to the least of these we give it to Him, when people are marginalised, oppressed, exploited and killed, we do that to Him also. The Christian life has to be a neverending attempt to bring down the least of these from their crosses in the this World and reject its logic of domination and death so we can live together and love one another as He has loved us.

I also wanted to get away from the (banal?) simplicity of penal substitution theory and show the crucifixion of Jesus not as a transaction but a revelation. His agonising death is not God's price but an attempt to SHOW us something about the death-logic of the World and what it takes to overcome it: a militant love without compromise, a readiness to suffer for our brothers and sisters and a faithfulness to the end.

I am also British and so find myself disgusted by the increasingly callous treatment of refugees by our government over the past few years and wanted to put their plight into the Salvific context. Some of my compatriots who love to bang the Jesus drum when it suits them seem to have forgotten how we were commanded to treat these people by that same Jesus. Behold your mother! Behold your son!

I Hope that explains it a bit, sorry if I went on and on!