Some passages of Scripture grow familiar with time. Others never do. Genesis 22—the binding of Isaac—is one of those texts that resists comfort. No matter how often we read it, it remains unsettling. A father is told to offer his promised son. The son carries the wood. God is silent. The knife is raised. We hurry to the end. We reassure ourselves that God never really intended the sacrifice. And that is true. But Kierkegaard insists that if we rush past the fear, we miss

The Crowd is Untruth: One theme in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard is his claim that “the crowd is untruth.” At first reading, it sounds harsh, even exaggerated. Surely the problem lies with bad crowds, not crowds as such. But Kierkegaard presses the point relentlessly, and in doing so, he forces us to look again at the Passion of our Lord. Kierkegaard reminds us that it was not a single individual who mocked Jesus, spat upon Him, and crucified Him — it was the crowd.