Sometimes stories in the Bible are hard to grasp. Perhaps the cultural context is so different we have trouble understanding it. Perhaps the text challenges some deeply held belief or a long held assumption. Sometimes the stories are just weird and perplexing. The Transfiguration story is a bit of all of these. What do we […]
Category: Christianity
Beatitudes are for Action
The Beatitudes contain some of Jesus’ best known teaching. And they may also be some of the more confusing. How are the poor in spirit blessed? Or those who mourn? Or those who are persecuted? Matthew’s version of the beatitudes, compared to Luke’s, is sometimes presented as spiritualizing Luke’s more down to earth words. People […]
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