I have recently blogged on the story set for the first Sunday, which is traditionally called The Temptation of Jesus. There (https://johntsquires.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/a-testing-time-forty-days-in-the-wilderness-1/) I argued that this story should better be called The Testing of Jesus, and it could best be understood as a time of testing Jesus with regard to his understanding of, and commitment … Continue reading Sacred place and sacred scripture: forty days in the wilderness (Luke 4; Lent 1C)