“Give Up All You Own and Control, and Come, Follow Me”

No kidding. No loopholes. This is the call to find our lives by losing them—by losing everything, actually—in the kingdom of the condemned, where we’re all dying, but together. With him. And with all those folks we’ve habitually, even righteously, cast as wrong, perverse, and beyond the pale. Which lands us daily in a different world, a new creation.