First of all, who is Jude? He’s a servant of Jesus of Nazareth. Perhaps like Emilo serves Mr. Deeds? Or perhaps he’s a servant like Mr. Carson or Mr. Bates? Or perhaps like Ali serves the Count of Monte Cristo? Or perhaps like Kylie Sven Opossum serves Mr. Fox. And Jude is also “a brother […]

Is there anything commendable in the following story?… “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you […]

Saw Gerrera would be right at home in the book of Judges! “That itch, that burn… You feel how badly she wants to explode? Remember this. Remember this moment! This perfect night. You think I’m crazy? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the sane. Look at us: unloved, hunted, cannon fodder. We’ll all be […]

To obtain maximum appreciation of this analogy you will need to partake of Wes Anderson’s 2018 film Isle of Dogs. If you haven’t already seen this film, it is heartily suggested that you (a) postpone your reading of this correspondence, cancel your plans for the next 1h 41m, watch the film, and then resume reading; […]

“It’s no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure […]

“I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though […]

“You can’t make a race horse of a pig.”“No,” said Samuel, “but you can make a very fast pig.” “It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don’t want to do.” “The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is […]

When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there […]

There is this one part where The Big Advocate of Jesus of Nazareth finds himself doubting whether or not Jesus of Nazareth is actually Immanuel. The Big Advocate is suffering in prison, and he sends a query to Jesus – a raw, haunting question – “Are you really The One, or should we be looking […]

The Bible is a Full Disclosure/Radically Honest document. God has absolutely zero interest in airbrushing His “heroes.” Most religious texts and media outlets promoting certain people try to make their patriarchs look like porcelain statues; but the Bible reads more like a police blotter mixed with a messy family group chat. It’s not sanitized. It’s […]