I'd suggest that the Beatitudes (Mt. 5:3-12) are as much a description of those who have gathered around Jesus to hear his teaching as t

Maybe the reality that a large swath of Christians (and I’m certainly guilty of this too) identify with only the “good guys” in Scripture (a

“Bethlehem has opened Eden: come, let us see.” (Orthodox Kontakion of the Nativity) After his brief historiographical preamble, St. Luke beg

Christians are often just as uninspiring and predictable as anyone else around them. They look and sound like everyone else. But where there