There is a kind of radio story that I've come to understand as "NPR Fantasy." It usually involves a person who has made a dramatic break with one career to find bliss in completely unrelated work. There's the ex-litigator now crafting artisanal cheese. The couple who met in their financial services careers but now haul freight in big rigs. The former electrical engineer now running a microbrewery.

 

On Sunday we will hear one of my favorite gospel stories: Mark's spare telling of Jesus calling Simon, Andrew, James and John away from their work as fisherman. It's a disruption story that has always been full of mystery to me. Why these four? What did Jesus see in them, and they in him? And what of Zebedee, left standing in the boat?