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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Rich Men, Dead Men
Hello Readers: I spent last weekend at a conference for young adults and so I haven’t been able to spend as much time writing and keeping to my regular posting schedule. This week I’ll have two shorter posts, here are some thoughts about Jesus’ unsettling parable of Lazarus and the rich man
Conversation in Faith 