There's something dishonest about the master-disciple relationship.
Starting at Mr. Murphy's hit FX series "Nip/Tuck," a sometimes garish, sometimes gory drama about a plastic surgery practice that ran from 2003 to 2010, he and Mr. Falchuk, 40, have had a mentor-disciple relationship.
However, if we can be so bold, these types of programs are unconventional in their radical approach to rethinking the master-disciple relationship, which, for us, is illuminating.
And yet it was not a typical shaikh and student, or guru and disciple kind of relationship, nor a sexual relationship (their own words and predispositions make that clear) but a mutual adoration, an intimate mirroring in which they each recognized a reflection of the Divine in each other.
In a 2012 Good Friday sermon he preached that Jesus' close relationship with his disciple John -- the only disciple who fearlessly showed up at the crucifixion -- suggested that Jesus was probably gay.
Enter the book, impersonally containing the teacher's knowledge without the benefit of embedding that knowledge in a living relationship with a disciple.
It also ought to be noted that in Matthew 19 Jesus apparently affirmed his disciples' worried claim, "If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry".
Today, though, one of the players who Valentine tabbed as a former disciple questioned the strength of his relationship with Valentine.
"So the first important thing is to establish the relationship between teacher and disciples," the Sakya Trizin continued.
With this pass began a relationship between player and disciples of such an enduring and spiritual nature that only the ignorant or envious would seriously try to compare it with any other in the history of sport.
While she maintained a fractured relationship with her Italian mother, a disciple of Mussolini, she never spoke to her father again.
