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 ...

Early in his introduction, Glen Stassen asks why a book on the Sermon on the Mount belongs in Jossey-Bass’s series called Enduring Questions in Christian Life. The Sermon on the Mount is indeed an ...

Dr. Daniel Fincke is a former Christian atheist. He wrote an article entitled, “The Evils of the Sermon on the Mount (Part 1)” (9-15-11; Patheos). He decries Jesus’ “supposed message of love and ...

Joshua Dubois, center, introduces members of the new President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office Feb. 5. (CNS, courtesy White ...

WASHINGTON — In a 2006 speech here, then-Sen. Barack Obama said Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was so “radical” the Defense Department wouldn’t survive its application. Earlier this month (April), the new ...

One man’s mountain is another man’s plain. In Luke (6:12-17, which precedes today’s Gospel) Jesus goes up a mountain to spend a night in prayer. The next morning he picks his Twelve Apostles. Then, ...

Looking out for the marginalized, taking care of the stranger in a strange land—these were favorite themes of Father Frank’s, and he returned to them again and again. The Holy Cross/Santa Cruz, on ...