Spirituality of the BeatitudesThe Beatitudes from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount offer a succinct summary of his essential teaching for Christians. In probing the meaning of these eight verses, Michael Crosby cuts to the heart of Matthew's Gospel: a spiritual message that is at once personal and deeply social. Crosby posits that Matthew's Gospel was written for a more affluent church community. As such, his Gospel offers a particularly telling challenge to Christians of the developed

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Paul Pierson

Malone brings to light women's persistence

was a Dutch priest and the pastor of L'Arche Daybreak Community in Toronto

and editor of the IBMR

its practice today

Angelyn Dries

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who writes that Gandhi's example "challenges us to become prophets and apostles of nonviolence

With selections from authors as diverse as Karl Barth

the imagination

They teach the human heart about compassion