The first lesson every politician learns is to address the issue that is most important to the people. Without a doubt — and on a global scale — that issue is easily identifiable. Retreading a slogan popular in the early nineties that James Carville gave to Bill Clinton, “It’s the economy, stupid!” What is everyone’s focus in this dawn of the second decade of the twenty-first century is not new. It was a pivotal concern for Jesus’ first century audience as well. In today’s gospel text Jesus ...
