Theological Perspective A New York Times travel article on pubs in Oxford commented that “a good pub is a ready made party, a home away from home, a club anyone can join.”1 One can imagine the Jesus of Luke 15 sitting in such a pub, eating and drinking with “anyone,” to the chagrin of the proper and the pure. To be more specific, in Luke 15 Jesus is eating and drinking with “tax collectors and sinners” while the “Pharisees and the scribes” are grumbling about the company he keeps (that
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