Well, if they made their own songs, it sounds like they could not bring them back.

I wonder though.... it could not have been thus, but wouldn't it be wonderful to think they just went off on a lark and faked their demise to go live in Shangri-La?

Seriously, Kat-- your fancy seems to have been caught by this one-- how about you write some ballads from the viewpoints of those concerned? The brave boys, the shocked parents, their little sisters left bereft, the people they met along the way, the vanquishers... write one from Jesus' perspective too... the older crusaders who'd gone before... can you see it?

Gosh, what a project. Can you do it?

I'll tell you why. We need a way to work through the bloody side of church history, with all the truth and power intact, but so as to allow people to handle the awfulness. I bet you can do it.

~S~