“The Lord be with you, O man of valor!” (Judg 6:12). The angel then tells Gideon that God is calling him to deliver the Israelites from the Midianites, their formidable foe. What an assurance ...

Gideon admits that, until he met the Devil at the Black Jaws gorge he had never truly believed in the existence of God. Up to that point he has been agnostic. His religious scepticism has its ...