The Beloved Disciple offers no theology of atonement, no theory of sacrifice. What he offers is something more unsettling and more accessible: a model of love as attention. He watched. He stayed. He ran toward what he did not yet understand. And in the end, that was enough.
The Epistle of Jude, tucked near the end of our New Testament, feels urgent and tender at once. “Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints,” he writes (Jude 1:3).
