Madonna’s Crucifixion
In the pop singer’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor” tour she poses on a giant cross, wearing a crown of thorns, against a backdrop of projected images showing children from Africa who are victims of AIDS and other calamities such as genocide in Darfur. Religious leaders around the world have risen up to condemn this, calling it “heresy” and “blasphemy.” I find her message inspirational. Here’s why.
