Today is July 14, 2023, in the Gregorian calendar, a calendar named after Pope Gregory XIII who, in 1582 AD, made a slight modification...

Maria Branyas of Spain is the oldest living person now. She is 116 years and 131 days old. She has lived through two world wars, the...

Pictures of Mary/Mariam with seven swords piercing her heart are common in Roman Catholic churches and traditions. The seven swords...

In front of our house in the Philippines was a little shop with several unrelated items like coffee, dishwashing liquid, charcoals,...

When Saul sought David’s life, David fled to Saul’s enemy Achish’s territory (the king of Gath), pretended to be a madman, and escaped...

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose – by any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote Shakespeare. The implication is that one’s...

Modern people tend to think ancient people weren’t serious about empirical truths involving hypothesis, testing, retesting, observation,...

Joy to the World is the most popular and common Christmas song. Isaac Watts, an English minister, wrote this song in 1719. The song is...

V-J Day in Times Square is an iconic photograph Alfred Eisenstaedt took, depicting the end of the war with Japan. Eisenstaedt didn’t know...

Singapore Airlines has had only one fatal crash. On the 31 of October 2000 (Halloween), Flight SQ 006 departed from Taipei, Taiwan. The...

In the movie Karate Kid (1984), seventeen-year-old Daniel LaRusso and his mother move from New Jersey to Los Angeles. They live in an...

Chandler Jarrell (played by Eddie Murphy), a social worker in Los Angeles, is assigned to protect a Tibetan child with supernatural...

After being rescued under protest from a fiery dragon, Princess Fiona has a change of heart. She leaves her cave, finds a bird, and sings...

God has created with hearts for restoration. We long for restoration with families, friends, and even enemies. Think of Esau and Jacob....

My uncles were D. T. Raja and D. J. Theodore, and my dad is D. S. Spurgeon. They seem unrelated by the “surnames.” But in my Tamil...

Time is valued and calculated differently in various cultures and people groups. Just as Albert Einstein predicted, Time is Relative. In...

The Psalm in Luke 1:46–55 is called The Magnificat. This title comes from the opening lines of verse 45 in the Latin Bible, the Vulgate:...

A slumber party isn’t a common practice in India. Yet, I left the house when my sisters brought their friends over on a Saturday or...

Charlie Chaplin was a talented English actor and producer of the silent movie era. The Kid was one of his best works, a full-length...

One of my friends is particular about how people use “may I” and “can I.” If someone were to ask, “Can I visit you?” a common expression...