Overview
Years ago a large painting of the cruxifixion was lent to a Midwestern city for exhibition during the Easter season. Approximately a hundred chairs were placed at a distance from the picture for the public to view it during business hours. You could step inside that enclosed space at any hour of the day and find people sitting and standing in absolute silence as they gazed at the scene before them. Remembrance of that place and picture can be relived in the content of "Lingering at Calvary." The author wants to stop readers who live much of their lives in this noncontemplative age of rush, pleasure, and ungodliness--stop them, make them sit or stand for a time in the absolute, tearful silence of sheer gratitude.