In an earlier reflection, I tried to see Judas not as the one-dimensional monster we have made him out to be, but as a man of flesh and blood. Am I the only one who looks at Judas this way? Who else has gazed into that same dark mirror, and what did they see? In…

There is no name as heavily laden as that of Judas Iscariot. For two thousand years his name has stood as a synonym for ultimate evil, for the dagger in the back, for the kiss that brings death. Across the centuries we have depicted him and seen him as a monster — and that is…