The Joy of Sacrifice (Melvin Burkholder)

Melvin Burkholder March 16, 2018

Sacrifice: This word sounds like deprivation, joyless asceticism, even like suffering. Certainly it does not sound like joy. But could it be that our instincts are wrong on this matter, that in a right-sideup world, joy and sacrifice are not mutually exclusive, but are actually blood brothers?

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