“These are not your grandma’s beatitudes…In your grandma’s beatitudes, people are happy because their actions have led to some observable reward,” says Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, Virginia. In...

“When I was a 10th grader, I suddenly, out of the blue, was diagnosed with cancer. My high school German teacher came to see me after my amputation. He gave me a wallet with German...