It’s finals week! By the time you pick up a copy of Friday’s paper, most of the victories and defeats will have been won or lost and students will be hightailing it toward summer jobs and distant adventures. Most of these young scholars will have done an admirable job of completing the semester; however, most of them will have done so with a last-minute surge of strength. It seems that even the best of us like to put things off until the 11th hour.

This morning (Friday) at 10, the Jesus and the New Testament class will sit for their final as well. As a part of their semester with the Gospels,...