When Jesus talks to the Sadducees about the afterlife, he’s not doing pastoral care. He’s not offering comfort, he’s not teaching us what we should say to grieving people. He’s outlining truth in a way that will silence a particular group that was attacking him.

Though you don’t believe it, there is an afterlife.It’s fundamentally different than this life, and that’s not bad.There’s no death there, so the things that depend on death in this life are different.Marriage, as a me...