Someone to Believe In

If you want to read about demons, try a Stephen King novel. But if you want to learn how to keep your demons from controlling you, there’s a better book to read.

“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?”

Yes, us. We are proud Americans. We are people who live in the richest, most powerful nation on Earth. We are individualistic, self-reliant and hard-working (for the most part). We are proud of what we have achieved and dearly hope the next generation will achieve even more.

We are so different from you, Jesus. You are a rabbi from the first century of this common era; a man who never traveled more than a few hundred miles from home — and did most of that traveling on foot, wearing sandals. We live in a jet age, even a space age. Many of us have traveled thousands of miles in a single day, soaring through the skies in a way you could scarcely dream of.

“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?”

You were noted in your time as a learned man, a scholar who pored over ancient, handwritten manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic. You probably understood Greek, as well — maybe from as far back as the...