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 ...

This is Danish artist Carl Bloch’s depiction of Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount. Block lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) The Sermon on the Mount is a favorite scripture of many ministers ...

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 ...

Cambridge, MA. It is the start of the new semester at Harvard, and these weeks are more than ordinarily busy — even as the relative quiet of the weeks between semesters and our 60+ inches of snow ...

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 ...