The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.