Egypt, in the time of Moses, was a hard place. As a people, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived under a dark cloud of systemic racism and state-sanctioned oppression. Being sneered at, discriminated against, and put to forced labour was an everyday reality. It was bad times in Cairo...
It is Easter weekend. A crowd is gathered around three crosses erected on a low hill just outside of Jerusalem. We can see the faces in the crowd…