Jesus ascended the mountain and preached a sermon that was evocative, provocative, world-changing-and, by now, so familiar it's almost impossible to hear. This poetic paraphrase renders Jesus' strange and startling words afresh.
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is an ordained Lutheran pastor, an Adjunct Professor of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, and the editor of Lutheran Forum. She is the author of Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theology of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (2013) and of more than one hundred articles on theology in both popular and scholarly venues.
