Herb Cromwell ( [email protected]) is a retired nonprofit executive and occasional writer. He lives in Catonsville.

We encounter this parable in the Gospel according to Luke: "There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar ...

In the Rich Man and Lazarus, the rich man is obsessed with wealth and had no regard for poor Lazarus, who was laid by the rich man’s gate every day. The Bible says that people cannot serve both ...