Not every neighbor is lovable. When our Lord commanded us, “love thy neighbor as thyself,” he was himself addressing a gathering of neighbors—the Pharisees—who regarded him as an enemy (Mt. 22:34-46). “Hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees,” they might have paused to give thanks, but instead they took it as an opportunity to exposeContinue reading “Loving the Unneighborly”