Woe to you Pharisees Pencil Preaching for Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Spirituality Pencil Preaching by Pat Marrin View Author Profile [email protected].

We’re all more like the scribes and Pharisees than we’d like to be in this respect. Even when we know the truth about something and proclaim that truth out loud, we still struggle to do what ...

The Pharisees were one of several Jewish sects in the first century. They were the interpreter class, who paid particular attention to matters of ritual purity.

Homilies and preaching that accurately portrays the Pharisees and differentiates those who helped Jesus from those who opposed him was one of several themes the conference was discussing.

The premise of an "us-versus-Pharisees" dichotomy is further undermined by the Book of Acts, where Pharisees appear as both members and allies of the nascent church.

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding, and very beautifully clothed Pharisees ...