Too Good Not to Share

Mark opens his Gospel with the beginning of the good news, a word aimed at a world weighed down by bad news. Starting from a sobering Rotary breakfast talk on Florida's soaring insurance rates, Rev. Stokes turns to 1 Corinthians 9, where Paul makes himself a slave to all for the gospel's sake, and argues that good news, unlike bad, cannot be kept in: it frees, propels and spreads, a calling every baptized Christian shares.