Sat Sep 17 2022 - 10:30
Followers and admirers of Jesus Christ understand his words to be statements of principle by which to live. “Love one another as I have loved you” is an example. However, in tomorrow’s gospel reading from St Luke we hit a bump on the road to discipleship in the mystifying parable of the unjust steward.
The thing that causes problems is the lesson that Jesus seems to suggest are to be drawn from this parable which seems at odds with the rest of his teaching: “And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly… And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.” It sounds like “if you can’t beat them join them” but it is not quite so simple.
Jesus shared the everyday lives of ordinary people especially the poor so it is quite possible that what he is saying here is that we might have to make compromises to make life tolerable for the weakest in society. It doesn’t mean that Jesus approves of the greed of the rich and powerful, represented in the parable by the Master, or their neglect of the poor.
When Tony Blair, Britain’s then-prime minister was asked about his faith, his aide Alastair Campbell intervened and said, “We don’t do God”. Michael Sandal, who is professor of government at Harvard, disagrees. He questions the reigning assumptions of modern public life – that moral and religious notions are private matters that should be kept out of public life.
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