The beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount have always intrigued me. For one, when I first read them they seem so simple, but the more I reflect on them at a greater depth, more complex contours begin to appear. Blessed are the poor in spirit Why...
“Grace and peace to you,” is the Apostle Paul’s favorite blessing. We see this blessing time and time again at the start of almost each one of Paul’s letters found in the New Testament. How fitting this is in that this is really, in large part, what...