bible and theology on Love and Pain

The Sermon on the Mount contains some of the most difficult ethical injunctions in all of scripture. Many of us do not know how to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. Martin Luther K...

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then, and be “safe”?