Sunday Devotions: A Tale of Two Cities

Revelation 17-21

For those of us celebrating All Saints’ Sunday, the lectionary recommends we revisit what’s by far my favorite passage from what’s probably my least-read book of the New Testament. Like Martin Luther, I far prefer the relative clarity of the gospels and epistles to the bewildering, perhaps encoded visions of Revelation.¹ But that strange book ends with a…