“And he began to say to them, 'Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”' Luke 4:21

I would wager that this text, Luke 4:14-30, has been preached more than any other here in Duke Chapel. If you're a regular worshipper here, you have heard it used as a text for sermons at least three times in the past two years. Its proper place is here, on the third Sunday after Epiphany. But it's always in season in the Chapel--with young and fearless prophet Jesus in the pulpit, giving the establishment what for, bludgeoning the status quo. I've heard this text used in the Chapel to attack South African apartheid, North Carolina prisons, the budget policies of the Reagan administration. It's a wonderful text for a progressive, on-the­ cutting-edge University Chapel--young Jesus, putting it…