... departure from slavery, it often brings a very intense insecurity, as we learn to live without certain familiar structures, and to make our own decisions and take responsibility for our own choices. It is not easy to live with freedom. As poet Irving Layton once observed, "Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free."8 Genuine freedom — freedom rooted, as Jesus described it, in knowing the truth — is tremendously demanding. It is much easier to ...
