We are being tempted afresh to give our allegiance to men who wield great power and wealth in the hope that we will benefit ...

His prospects were bleak: Rome was dangerous, engulfed by civil war between power-hungry factions. One of these was led by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar. Then Augustus got a lucky break.

What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus ...