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To deal with the transfiguration of Jesus, we must deal with the limitations of our vision, of our sense of real, of the world itself.
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In describing the path before them, Jesus offers metaphors of salt and light to inspire us, but the least we can do is not be total jerks.
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As Jesus continues preaching the sermon on the mount, modern readers need to remember the wider context of our greater calling.
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When Jesus compares his followers to salt, it offers a complex note to the modern understanding of nutrition, health, life, how to be.
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In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.
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Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.
