Pilgrims of the Cross by Jim Forest

Pilgrims of the Cross

The Beatitude of Persecution

by Jim Forest

I used to sing with my children the black spiritual that rose out of Jacob’s vision of the angel-filled ladder linking heaven and earth:

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