The Angriest Letter in the New Testament - What Your Sunday School Never Told You

One chapter. Twenty five verses. And the man writing it is furious the entire time.

He calls people hidden reefs. Waterless clouds. Wandering stars headed for permanent dark. Five images stacked back to back, like he’d been sitting on this for a while and somebody finally handed him a pen.

Here’s the part nobody told you in Sunday school: this letter wasn’t the letter he wanted to write. He says so, right in verse three. He was sitting down to write something warm about salvation, and then he didn’t. Something happened first.

I dig into who Jude actually was, what he quotes that isn’t even in your Bible, and why his anger might not be anger at all. New episode is live.