Of Stoning

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It’s not a quick death, stoning.

It takes about a half hour, and you get bruised and battered and bloodied. Probably, you pray for one of the first stones to knock you unconscious.

Perhaps it was Stephen’s intent that his discourse about the crowd’s failure to accept Jesus as the fulfillment of the prophecies would anger the people so much that...