Intimidated by knowledge

Alfred Edersheim, a Messianic Jewish scholar, described the teachers of the law in his book the Life and Times of Jesus in these terms: These were men who, on Sabbaths and feast-days, would come out on the Temple-terrace to teach the people, or condescend to answer...

The sin that breaks community

Everyone deep down longs for community in one form or another. We were made for community. “It is not good for man to be alone” – Genesis says. Humans cannot live, cannot learn language, cannot fully develop apart from other people. Yet if community is stitched into...