... is incomprehensible both to Pilate and to us. As opposed to a leader who’ll get us all we want, a good way to think of Jesus is to reflect upon the village of Eyam (pronounced “eem”) in Derbyshire, England. Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks’ novel Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague relates how the village of Eyam in the summer of 1665 was struck with the plague. The village had a population of 350. The village pastor, William Mompesson, convinced the villagers to quarantine themselves to ...
