was given leave to stone our dancer—be that literally or symbolically—only if he himself carried no sin. Let us follow this man away from the dusty Jerusalem square, down the side streets leading to his comfortable home, his privileged situation. The Christ did not appoint this man to be our dancer’s judge. No, he asked the man to look inward at his own heart. This duke who wished to cry foul at the mote in the eye of another has failed to see the beam in his own. This man is all of us. “In an effort to aid our own spiritual progression, I have selected fifty-three verses of scripture we, the
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