Rightly understood and rightly communicated, the Christian faith is one of great joy. It is an invitation to God s kingdom, where tears are replaced by laughter and longing hearts find their purpose and their home. This is the heart of the gospel: God s search to reclaim us and love us as his own. But have we truly grasped this? Those of us who have disdained Christianity as a religion of bigotry have we repudiated the genuine article or merely demonstrated our own prejudice and ignorance? Those of us who are Christians have we deeply apprehended the mission of Jesus, and do our ways and...