In Lent 5 sermon Glynn Cardy looks at the theme of freedom that runs through the scriptures but which has been routinely suppressed by the church and those in power. Jesus the free man is just to dangerous. "For most of history human freedom has been regarded in the Christian world as dangerous, an open door to civil unrest, rebellion, and social chaos. It was firmly believed that people were not meant to be free. Rather they were created to be subject to authority – subject to God the Supreme Ruler in the heavens, subject to the King who ruled under God on earth, and subject to the position in life that this God had allotted to them. People were not even meant to be free to have their own thoughts, let alone express them. They were instead expected to think the thoughts prescribed by God through the Bible, and interpreted by God’s ecclesiastical ‘servants’." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=498&id=931.