Enemy Mine
St Paul the Apostle as an RPG Cleric, by Wayne Reynolds Propers: The Third Sunday of Easter , AD 2025 C Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for You know his sins are great. Alleluia! Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia! Grace mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. On paper, St Paul was a villain straight out of central casting. His resources, his connections, made him perfect for ferreting out the nascent Christian movement. Firstly, he’s a Pharisee, which means right off the bat that he’s well-educated, scrupulously religious, and generally holds the respect of the common people, who viewed the Pharisees as a sort of middle-class vanguard against a corrupted Temple administration and the broader pagan Empire of which Judea was now an unwilling part. The Pharisees were the good guys; they had the heft of morality. Secondly, Paul is fluent in Greek, steeped in Hellenistic philosophy, familiar with the St...
