Was Judas a bad guy? Probably not. Just like us. Judas loved Jesus. But like two horses pulling the chariot of the king, one horse runs pure, looking straight ahead and faithfully pulling, while the other horse looks around, gets distracted and allows concerns and anxieties to cloud his vision. When the two horses fought inside Judas, eventually a

The evidence, it seems to me, is actually quite straightforward: Jesus performed mighty deeds, which did in fact call forth the charge that he was a magician, in league with demonic forces.171 But what does this charge mean? It means, not least, that Jesus was perceived to be posing a serious threat to the social, cultural and religious world of

People have tried to read the story of Jesus as though the only thing it had to say to the Jews of Jesus’s day was that they were wrong. They were wrong about God, about God’s coming kingdom, about the way to salvation.