According to today’s reading from Hebrews, we are to: “Obey your leaders and defer to them, for they keep watch over you and will have to give an account…” St. Paul wrote this foolishness!? Actually, he did not. According to Marcus Borg in his wonderfully written book “Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written” (2012): “We do not know who wrote it. In the 200s, an early Christian theologian named Origen said that its author ‘was known only to God.’ In the centuries since, there have been guesses. Around the year 400, Augustine and Jerome suggested it was written by Paul, and thus it has sometimes been called the 14th letter of Paul…” Back then, following the leader(s) made sense to those wanting communities to accept a certain theology. For example, according to Borg, “For Hebrews, Jesus is not only the great high priest, but also the sacrifice. What he sacrificed was his life. Moreover, his sacrifice rendered temple sacrifice unnecessa