Jesus and the "Gotcha" Question

Jesus' interaction with some clever people who want to trap him demonstrates how we, too, can resist taking the bait. 

It wasn't exactly a "gotcha" question, but it was certainly a "gotcha" moment.

Last November, BuzzFeed, an entertainment and social news website, reported that Chip and Joanna Gaines, the popular couple who are the stars of the HGTV series Fixer Upper, a home-remodeling show, attend a church that does not support same-sex marriage and views homosexuality as a sin.

Whatever their church teaches, the Gaineses have never commented on air about LGBT people, same-sex marriage or their religion, and many of the reader responses to the BuzzFeed article took issue with the media company's motives in reporting the story, some describing it as a "witch hunt." One respondent wrote, "You are inciting a wave of negative attention on this couple for something that indirectly links to them. That's not journalism." (The commenter went on to say what it was, but it's not a word we want to use in the pulpit.) Our sister publication, The Wired Word, which used the Gaineses' story for one of its weekly...