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.
Category: scripture
On Jephthah’s Rash Oath
On Jephthah, a tragic hero of the Book of Judges.
On Death in the Psalms
It cannot be said that a belief in an afterlife and immortality of the soul are expressed in the Book of Psalms. What are we to make of this?