Making a godly impact by balancing the beatitudes
I suggest that keeping the Beatitudes in balance is what the context directs. The world just might be astonished, and we will certainly experience God’s promised blessing.
Ronald Sloan
Op-ed Contributor
What is this thing called love?
Agape love is neither always affirming nor does it just accept the status quo as inevitable. Yet, it is always clothed in patience, kindness, humility, selflessness, and forgiveness.
What the Bible says about discrimination
In Matthew 25, Jesus emphasizes ministering to “these brothers of mine” in the marginalized categories of strangers, naked, sick, hungry, thirsty, or incarcerated. According to Jesus, failure to do so justifies eternal punishment.
Denominational discord: What would Jesus’ half brother do?
James suggests in his epistle that the true source of the quarrels among Christians is not so much differences of opinion between disputing parties, but the lack of inner holiness within each individual.
Dear President-elect Biden, is unity possible?
An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
