Repentance. My first remembrance of the word was not from religious circles. Rather it was from the cartoons of the New Yorker, which often featured bearded prophets dressed in robes and sandals preaching to the metropolitan crowds of the Big Apple. The caricature was a lasting one—fire and brimstone, moralism, Armageddon and little impact. Yet all the New Testament is replete with such a message. “John came, baptizing in the desert
Page 14