“I am counted with them that go down into the pit”

Conspicuously missing from the way most Christians speak of the crucifixion is the brute fact that we killed him.

On an almost sheer hillside, the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu stands on the eastern slope of Mt. Zion. A golden rooster rises from the domed steeple. Indeed roosters’s crows can be heard all over the adjacent city of David. “Gallicantu” mea…