Boy Jesus hospitality Gillespie’s largest single work

Gillespie’s largest single work

Professor of English and Scholar in Residence

Ecclesiastes invites us to face the hard truth that our lives are very brief and mostly out of our control

Fulfilment in Christ

Boy Jesus hospitality Gillespie’s largest single workWhat would Jesus have witnessed, experienced, and felt as a boy growing up in first century Galilee? Jesus lived at a time of deep social disturbance, as the Jewish people struggled to come to terms with Roman occupation. As a boy, he was a refugee, an outsider, an immigrant in the Galilee in which he grew up. He was also a witness to horrific atrocities carried out by the occupying Roman overlords and their client rulers. All this and more is