Thursday in the the Third Week of Lent

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, * and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *

My students were having a difficult time.

This was in a Comparative Religion class where difficulty was not rare, given that we had just plunged through the obscure profundis of Hinduism and Buddhism. We were now studying the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Naturally, that meant we had to begin where the three religions inevita…