Saturday, June 27, 2015

Pharisaic

If the church has ever
typed with both hands,
it is in our caricature
of first century Judaism's
institutional professionals.

We condemn their job-class
with generalizations
at our own risk,

unremembering the likes
of Nicodemus, Jairus, and
an unknown host of others

who may well have been willing
to cast aside privilege and
maybe even belief
for a shot at grace.

If we dig deeply enough
into their faults, we just might
realize that, chief among them

is attempting to protect God
by focusing far too exclusively
and confidently on behavior
applicable only to a people
wholly other, which creates barriers
to seeing them as holy other.

E tu, Brute?


© 2015 Todd Jenkins

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