Welcome to shadowofthecross.org.  My name is J. Thomas Johnson, and I am a survivor of Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  I am also a Christian, and a pastor.  There are times both in our world and in our lives when tragedy strikes, and we find ourselves standing together with the chief priests and the scribes at the foot of the cross, looking up at a God who doesn’t look very much like God at all.  Cancer was one of those moments for me.  I hope that this web resource and the associated blog will be of help to those who are wrestling to remain faithful in the long shadow of the cross--a space in which the self-proclaimed God of all creation appeared to have been unable to rescue Himself from dying and death.

May the Lord bless you  and keep you as you wrestle to remain faithful all the way to the end!

J. Thomas Johnson