The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

by Philip Pullman

You think being what you are is enough? You’d better start considering what you do.’

‘Lord, if I thought you were listening, I’d pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive. That