The Gospel of Mark is the oldest of all the gospels. I love it because it’s written by a regular person. It’s original language is full of grammatical errors and reminds me of a misspelled tweet that gets shared over and over because that message is just that dope.
I love it because it’s like an onion, so multi-layered, each story actually encompassing multiple meanings at once.
Because it’s so subversive, constantly taking jabs at a superpower that is oppressing a people, yet at the same time it’s full of humor.
I love it because it paints a portrait of a not-so-perfect Jesus, one who gets angry, one who goofs up.
Because it’s the closest we get to the un-messed-around-with recipe.
Because in the earliest versions it ends without resolution, leaving that work to the audience.
Because even its writing is a means of railing against perfectionism and the politics of respectability.
It wasn’t written by a doctor or an aristocrat or someone with “authority,” but that doesn’t stop the Gospel of Mark from being damn near Shakespeare.
- What do you remember about the book of Mark?
- Mark was the first Gospel to be written. What difference does this make to you?
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Written & spoken by Natalie Renee Perkins
Music by YEYEY
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Edited by Jim Kast-Keat
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