Jesus in the cross cries out in existential suffering:  "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" 

Does God suffer?  Can you love someone and not suffer?  Does God suffer with you on the cross?

The podcast begins with a reflection on the marriage metaphor in Scripture (and in Luther's thinking); then delves into a history of how Christians have answered the question "Does God suffer?"  Likely people born in the 20th or 21st century would say "yes" but this was not the historical answer of the church.  Our current approach to seeing God as one who suffers gains and loses something against the historical understanding of the church.