"While I didn't realize how financially fragile things were there until later, I came because I saw a challenge and the opportunity to implement a vision," Cross tells Diverse.
A newspaper correspondent turned water and port commissioner in Albany, New York, Cross tells the story of a new kind of warship, designed by someone who had no formal training in ship design, untested, and manned by recruits with no experience on the water led by Ivy League college boys accustomed to yachts who in the end are credited with sinking 70 u-boats, 26 Japanese submarines, and fought in every major battle in the Pacific War.
That the revelation of God's glory in Jesus through the Transfiguration is surrounded by Jesus' persistent announcement of his journey to the cross tells us what it will take for the chasm between God and God's people to be bridged.