Why is anger such a spiritually hazardous emotion?
Wasn’t Jesus angry when he overturned the tables of the moneychangers in the temple?

Is meekness always weakness? What does it mean to be meek?

Does Jesus expect Christians to be walking carpets?

Why is the Remembrance of Wrongs so spiritually hazardous?

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We also reflect on:
• Commentaries by the Orthodox priests John Mack and Vassilios Papavassiliou, who speak from their pastoral experience.
• How the Cynic philosopher Antisthenes advises us to “pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to notice your faults.”
• How Jesus did not get angry when James and John, sons of Zebedee, asked whether they would be seated at his side when He reigns in glory.
• How the antithesis of anger is love.
• How meekness does not mean that spouses who are physically abused should take the abuse. Rather, they need to separate to a place where they feel safe. This is from my experience as facilitator in divorce support groups.
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