Daily Clobbering the Clobber Texts

In the Orthodox liturgy, when the deacon chants from Acts — "All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need" — something radical confronts us. The earliest Christians didn't build walls around their tables. They tore them down. Picture that first community in Jerusalem: fishermen breaking bread beside tax collectors, Pharisees sharing wine with former prostitutes, Roman sympathizers passing the cup to zealots.…