Episode 155: Rediscovering Justice, Part 4--The Sermon on the Mount

For twenty centuries, people have been challenged by Jesus' teachings about turning the other cheek, walking the extra mile, and offering cloaks and shirts to those who take them.  They are difficult, both on their face, and seen against the backdrop of the Torah's regulations about retaliation (an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth).  And they definitely have something to say about the subject of "justice."  So what do we do with these and other challenging teachings of Jesus, and how might it help us to understand them from the vantage point of people living under the oppressive reign of a foreign empire, and how Jesus might be both insisting that all people be treated as fully human while also subversively breaking the cycle of violence and revenge?  We'll explore these questions and more as we dig into the Sermon on the Mount and what it has to say about justice in this latest episode of "Crazy Faith Talk."