Ana’s Reviews > Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary > Status Update

“We are in good hands; therefore, let us take care of one another.” It’s hard to put it better. Of course,I am not suggesting that we reduce Christianity to a message that can be put on a greeting card. The Chris tian tradition—its scriptures,its history, its intellectual tradition, its worship and practices, its wisdom, its music and art, its saints, its lives filled with compassion and sometimes justice

Thus the word “repent” combines to return from exile and to think/ see anew. It means to return from a condition of estrangement and exile to the presence of God. And it means to acquire a new way of seeing and thinking that goes beyond the conventions of culture. Both meanings involve centering in God—in God as Jesus spoke of God.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” If we do not examine our lives, if we do not submit them to critical reflection, we are doomed to live our lives as the conventions of our culture dictate.