In the Sundays of the Epiphany we are reminded in our worship how God continually reveals God’s Person. That, of course, is done most clearly in the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ, who came to be one of us. Today the emphasis of the Lessons is on how God is revealed in the Word. In the Holy Gospel, Jesus himself points out how he is revealed in the word, or the word is revealed in him, but the people do not seem to understand. That is always a problem in communication. The words can be ever so clear, but do people get the message? Jeff Shesol deals with this problem in his book Mutual Contempt, a study of the tensions between President Lyndon Johnson and the Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The problems began with Kennedy’s questioning the advisability of bringing Johnson along as a vice-…