Insights Blog, Church of the Resurrection Exodus 20:17: The spiritual hazard of envying others’ lives For some of us, envy is a constant companion, a set of lenses through which we see each experience, each person. It compels us to compare ourselves, our lives, our partners, children and jobs, with others and always come up short. Envy plants seeds of dissatisfaction that take root and grow into resentments. It fuels our insecurities that we are not enough and feeds our fears

Insights Blog Church of the Resurrection Jesus really doubles down on “do not kill” (Ex. 20:13) in Matthew 5: 21-24. Jesus calls out contempt for others as a form of interpersonal violence, a form of murder. We live in a world of knee-jerk responses. Cycles of reactivity dominate political and social culture and can seem normal. Labeling and name-calling can even feel righteous – we are pointing out the “evil other,” right? Yet underneath the name-calling is the dangerous pos