If there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. There is much that occupies our thoughts. The world in which we live is a one where information comes to us instantaneously, regardless how distant the origin of the story. In a moment we have details on events happening…

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Jesus spoke these words near the end of his teaching that we refer to as “The Sermon on the Mount.” As a rabbi, and as one deeply committed to scripture, Jesus’s words are…

But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” Immediately before writing the words above, Peter had instructed his audience to be “obedient children,” and to not be “conformed to the passions of [their] former ignorance.”…