Gospel

I like how Jesus does it. They ask him a thorny question, he comes back, not with a catechism-style answer, but with REASONS and with HISTORY: Why Moses did what he did, how it was "from the beginning."

Jesus teaching so often leaves no wiggle-room; and yet divorce is still common today, even among Christians.

How any biblical Christian religion can permit divorce after reading this passage about Jesus being tested by the Pharisees, continues to show that there are many today who continue to live with, as Jesus called it: "hardness of  hearts".

Maybe it's just one more sign that we urgently need to return to the Gospel as the guiding principle of our entire lives.