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Have you read a good book lately? If you haven’t, the Gospel writer Luke, divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit, outdid himself in Chapter 10. It begins when the Lord appoints 72 men to go on a journey. They could not bring food, money or personal belongings – just the clothes on their backs and the sandals on their feet.
There is a common, and I’ll admit somewhat understandable, interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that sees the great work as a celebration of the virtues of the Shire, that little town where the hobbits dwell in quiet domesticity.