Anybody love Les Misérables as much as I do? The story of a criminal who to save a straving child, but then steals silver from the church. When the police catch him, the bishop does something extraordinary: he tells them the silver was a gift and has Valjean freed. But throughout the story, the question remains: Is Valjean a bad man who does good things, or a good man who has done bad things? And what about Inspector Javert, who does everything by the book but seems incapable of compassion? Who is actually the good man in this story? And where is God in all of the suffering, confusion, hope, and revolutionary ferver?
This Sunday, in The Kingdom of This & That, we'll explore Good & Bad, what Jesus teaches about the contradictions of the human heart, and how the cross transforms the way we understand ourselves and one another.
