SOME of the advice Jesus offers in the Sermon on the Mount seems to be about as far from prudent thinking on life as it's possible, almost, to get. Faced with the evangelical counsel of perfection not ...

This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

Today’s Sunday gospel is a lengthy one; it is about the Sermon on the Mount and this is one of our Lord Jesus Christ’s teaching to the multitude of people who were awed by him. If we listened or read ...

“This was the center of Jesus’ public life here in the Galilee,” says Robert Funk as he walks into the ruins of ancient Capernaum. “This was where the Gospels tell us that Jesus called his first ...

To be sure, the Ten Commandments are a lot shorter than the Sermon on the Mount, so it’s a lot easier to erect a monument containing the text of the Ten Commandments (see Exodus 20:1-13) than it is to ...

Can a document written over 2,000 years ago still be meaningful today? What is it in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that still speaks to us? Our ways of living, our languages, our cultures ...

From The New York Times comes yet another testimony to the power of a second-half, come-from-behind exhortation. The Kansas City Chiefs were down by 10 points, with less than 10 minutes to play. Their ...

At summit in Rome, Elder Gerrit W. Gong shared news of the launch of a multi-faith, multi-university task force that will ...

Apr. 1—Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on the Mount is a compendium of Jesus Christ's teachings that was meant to correct the inhumane religious leadership of that day. Ministers ...