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From the write-up on the back of The Wire series 1 box set: ‘told from the points of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn’.

Now go read some of Jesus’ parables – like the good Samaritan, in Luke 10, or the shrewd manager, in Luke 16 – or things like the pronouncements in Isaiah 44 & 45 about God calling and equipping Cyrus, the king of Persia and not a Jew, and tell me the Bible doesn’t do the same thing of ‘challenging easy distinctions’.