Neither Jew nor Gentile

The Roman Catholic Lectionary today brings us into a couple of examples of the understanding of the relationship with the Divine that Richard Rohr writes about in “The Naked Now” We apparently invite spiritual and temporal trouble when we resort to dual thinking. The Israelites were often caught between the extremes of Jew and Gentile. In the excerpt from Luke’s gospel we see that the blind man must “step out”. He must be open to change. He must have faith.