Our Heritage | by Fred Pearce | Volume 20, Issue 6 | November - December 2014
“The poor in spirit the meek they that mourn”: such is the opening description of those whom Jesus says are blessed in his Sermon on the Mount. They appear strange terms, for do they not suggest that the faithful should be depressed and sorrowful? But in fact they are terms with a long history i…
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