A slave, then a dead man, next a prostitute, and now a madman – Luke piles one story on top of another showing how Jesus widens the circle of the people of God to include those who have been seen as contaminated and corrupting – the unclean. Two thousand years later, the mentally ill are the group we still fear, and shun. Luke has placed this mad young man in an unclean town, a town on the far side of... Read more