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“Thou shalt not have other banks before me…”

“Thou shalt not have other banks before me…”

by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized    ~ Approx. 2min

Ours is an age that’s grown comfortable with its idols, for the most part, and so God’s insistence, so central to the Old Testament, on pre-eminence over all other things sounds just a little needy and insecure to contemporary ears. We’re happy to avoid golden calves...

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