This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

The "poor in spirit," to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount, are the humble people who live with an awareness of ...

“Blessed are the merciful.” Mercy is not weakness; it is restorative courage. In community, mercy refuses disposable people. It makes room for accountability without exile and truth without cruelty.

SOME of the advice Jesus offers in the Sermon on the Mount seems to be about as far from prudent thinking on life as it's possible, almost, to get. Faced with the evangelical counsel of perfection not ...

Today’s Sunday gospel is a lengthy one; it is about the Sermon on the Mount and this is one of our Lord Jesus Christ’s teaching to the multitude of people who were awed by him. If we listened or read ...

It’s a common saying that a homilist should prepare to preach with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. This week, as I was praying and meditating about our Lord’s teaching about being ...

Ethics for Christians in Living the Sermon on the Mount. We can barely overstate the historic significance of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian ethics. Since the day Matthew recorded this ...

No section of Scripture has been cited more than the Sermon on the Mount, Wilder said. "Conservative scholars love this passage of Scripture. Liberal scholars love this passage of Scripture," the ...

Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

From The New York Times comes yet another testimony to the power of a second-half, come-from-behind exhortation. The Kansas City Chiefs were down by 10 points, with less than 10 minutes to play. Their ...