Probably one of the hardest things most of us have to do is to forgive others, particularly those who appear to deliberately go out of their way to mistreat us.
"I have a headache," my husband said one Sunday morning as we were getting breakfast before leaving the house for our local Christian Science church, where he was to serve as Reader.
The average person is apt to think of "moral" as referring simply to the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong, particularly in connection with sexual behavior.
In the primitive communities portrayed in the Old Testament, sacrifice was performed so that the suppliant, or the entire community, could affirm or restore unity with God.