The Sermon on the Mount

            Led by Fr. Jeff Trostle

Matthew 5–7 contains the longest sustained teaching of Jesus in the Gospels. These blessings, commands, and warnings have shaped Christian moral imagination for two millennia, yet they resist easy application. This class moves through the Sermon section by section, attending to its first-century setting and to the questions it raises for us. Rather than treating the text as a set of impossible ideals or as general moral advice, we will read it as a portrait of life within the kingdom Jesus proclaimed. All are welcome; no prior study required.