Wisdom is skillful living, not a comprehension of knowledge. People joke: “Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are fruit, but wisdom is not...

Native speakers can make puns and play on words that often go unnoticed by foreign readers or in translations. A college friend told me,...

Flashbacks are scenes in plays, stories, or movies set at a time earlier than the main story. Often the characters look back at that time...

Charles Wendell Colson, commonly known as Chuck Colson, was an attorney and political advisor for American President Richard Nixon. He...

Siddhartha was born to a royal family in Lumbini, now in Nepal. He grew up in the seclusion of his palace without seeing poverty,...

In a BBC report, Dr. Alastair Gunn, a radio astronomer at the University of Manchester, reported that the universe has over two trillion...

The phrase “Baptism Saves” got one of my friends into trouble. He attended a church where the pastor’s wife didn’t believe in baptism and...

The Apostle’s Creed wasn’t a creed that apostles like Peter and Paul composed. Instead, it originated from an old Latin creed around the...

Lightning bugs (aka fireflies and glowworms) are small beetles that can illuminate the lower half of their bodies to attract their prey...

In the musical movie, The Greatest Showman, young Phineas T. Barnum fights hunger and steals a piece of bread, only to be caught by the...

In 2021, America watched the sad death of Gabbi Petito at the hands of her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The two traveled across the United...

VeggiTales was a popular children’s show, especially among Christians, in the 1990s. By computer-generated animations of vegetables like...

In 2002, Rick Warren’s 40-day devotional, The Purpose Driven Life, surprised the Christian world with a simple message (and a large...

I didn’t know much about America, Americans, and American cuisine when I went to the States in my late teens. The first Christmas, I went...

In the movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the eccentric grandpa, Jeremy Potts, says to his grandkids, “One morning, I shot an elephant in my...

Words have a range of meanings. For example, a trunk can be the trunk of an elephant, the trunk of a tree, the trunk of a car, the trunk...

Well-written poems have a way of expressing one’s emotions and capturing the hearts of the listeners. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall...

Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian living between 60 to 30 BC. Concerning the lives of the slaves in the Roman Empire, he wrote, The...

Claudius was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling between AD 41 to 54 when the gospel spread to Asia Minor and Rome. He wrote a treaty on...

Jesus, Peter, and his fellow disciples had three cups of wine during the Passover meal, and it was late at night when they reached...