“Created in the divine image and likeness, we can experience and express that divine likeness only through the bond of social and community relatedness. The only protection from betrayal is not to love, never to trust. The only security against becoming a Judas is never to become a disciple.”
–Ray Anderson, The Gospel According to Judas (Helmers & Howard, 1991), p. 18-19
[The quotes this week come from Ray Anderson’s 1991 book entitled The Gospel According to Judas. It was required reading in a Christology class that I took in seminary exactly thirty years ago this spring. It was the most impactful book that I read in seminary, primarily because it allowed me to accept the parts of me that I had banished, damned or betrayed. It allowed me to open up to the kindness within me that I had suppressed, yet had always been there, like a hidden spring. You could say that it saved me. I definitely felt more at “home” in myself afterwards. And in this revisiting of it, I was reminded of its staying power.]
