This is characteristic of all the evangelists who have had the biggest impact on history. They have all been outliers and headaches to the established Church authorities, and those authorities have always had to run to catch up to them.

People in our time are looking for meaning and purpose, which have become critically absent as the world has grown more secular. They are finding it among people who have Bibles in their hands, and pray with the scriptures daily, several times daily.

Was what Judas did really that much worse than what Peter did? Or the rest of the disciples? Peter denied even knowing Jesus. All the rest of them ran away.

The sign of Jonah proclaimed by Jesus was saying to the Scribes and Pharisees, shouting to them as it shouts to the Church: “There are lost people out there whom you’re supposed to go see. God made them all, God loves them all, just the same as He loves you. So go!

Do we think that there is nothing left about Jesus that is really surprising, that it has all been fully known, considered, written?

The Church - an institution that is already very good at bringing people together, creating bonds that help, heal and hope.

It takes the Church to understand what Jesus is talking about, that is serious about praying, thinking, reading, writing, and knowing Jesus.