Better Living through Indignation
I’m trying to become more indignant. And also less so. It turns out indignation – not its presence or absence, but its cause and its object – is one of the best measures of spiritual health. Saint Mark, almost back to back in the same chapter, tells two stories about indignation. One story is about the collective indignation of Jesus’ apostles toward two of their own, John and James, when they ask Jesus for elite status in his kingdom – one wants to sit at Jesus’ right hand,