“It amazes me that Jesus could call a Matthew and a Simon both to be his disciples. Matthew was a tax collector, a conservative of the conservatives. Simon was a zealot, the liberal of the liberals. … They were farther apart than Ted Kennedy and Rush Limbaugh could ever dream of being. … What's amazing is that you don't find Jesus whispering a word about which one he thought was better. … Jesus is the lord of the transpolitical kingdom.”
Greg Boyd
The pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minn., spoke at a recent conference sponsored by Christian Ethics Today. He was quoted by the Washington Post. (RNS)