Four years ago, shortly after I became Episcopalian after many years of being nothing, I learned an important lesson about Jesus. I was working on a project that has occupied much of my time since then, a Bible for seekers and twenty- and thirty-somethings that my best friend Chris Seay and I got rolling called The Voice. It was while I was retelling the gospel of Mark that I ran headlong into one of “the hard sayings of Jesus.” Because Jesus and the people of Jesus had recently saved