St. Thomas: The Sarcastic Disciple.

What we can all learn from exhausted honesty

I was reading through John’s Gospel this past week, going slowly enough to actually stop at things I’d blown past a hundred times, when I landed on a line from Thomas that I’d somehow never really heard before. Not the “doubting” line. A different one.

Jesus announces to the group that they’re going back to Judea, where people had recently tried to stone…