Achan’s Plunder – and Blunder

Here’s a disturbing story from the Book of Joshua story of a Israelite soldier named Achan who made a terrible mistake. What I say may not make the story any less disturbing, but we will hear a great spiritual lesson related to it from St. John of the Cross.

Unto the Third and the Fourth Generation

At least four passages of the Old Testament talk about God punishing the descendants of evil men down to the third and fourth generations.  How could a loving God do this?