The Ledger and the Gift

This Sunday in Between Bread and Stone, I sit with one of the hardest passages in Matthew: the parable of the unforgiving servant. At its center is an impossible debt, a gift freely given, a servant who rebuilds the very system that released him, and an ending that appears to place torture in the hands of God. Episode 72 asks what happens when mercy is turned back into accounting, how Mammon survives inside people who have been liberated from it, and why this parable has so often been aimed at survivors from the wrong end of the room. The Ledger and the Gift is about debt, forgiveness, power, witness, and the difference between grace that frees and religion that collects. You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe