2018-Our Year of Friendship

When a new year begins, many of us commit to a handful of “resolutions”-things we hope to improve about ourselves in the coming year. Some of us aim to eat better and become more fit, others to read more books, others to be more socially engaged or generous with our money. And yet, none of us would imagine being as ambitions with self-improvement as the Pharisees were, who turned God’s 10 Commandments into no less than 613 laws. Can you imagine?