Incognito

During the Middle Ages, royalty would travel throughout their kingdom in disguise so that people would not know they were talking to a king or a queen. This was known as being incognito. Barclay tells the story of one such European royal who, against the advice of his advisers, continued to travel incognito in his realm. When they asked him to stop doing it, he replied, “I cannot rule my people unless I know how they live” (Barclay, Gospel of Luke, 28). In Jesus, we can see a God who set asid...