The Call of Matthew

The Call of Matthew
Matthew 9.9-17

I was a teenager in the famous 1960s. Revolution was in the air. Protests, especially among young people, were the order of the day. Young Americans protested against the Vietnam war. Students in Paris told factory workers they had nothing to lose but their chains (the factory workers mostly ignored them). Undergraduates in Oxford, where I was at the time, protested about almost everything, though the subjects we chose showed how little we really had to grumble about: college food, wearing gowns for lectures, colleges keeping files on student activists...

Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright