Mothers love their children. A folklore speaks of a mother, a son, and his mean wife. On an occasion, the son promised his wife he would...

A few decades ago, my favorite show was House, MD, in which a diagnostic genius, Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie), solved...

The Scriptures contain many interactions between people and angels as God’s ministers. When Adam and Eve sinned, God placed them outside...

Irony, innuendos, sarcasm, entendre, play-on-words, and similar language and cultural elements are easy to miss and difficult to transfer...

Most of us have experienced our parents calling us with tenderness, anger, or frustration. When my mother called me, “makana” (a vocative...

Elvis Presley was generous to his friends. Notably, he gave Jerry, Ron, and Gerard — his longtime friends — Lincoln and Cadillac luxury...

Twins and siblings very close in age often have friendly rivalries such as how many pizza pieces one can eat or how fast one can run,...

One of my college teachers often said, “Someone turned in the wrong psalm for this week’s assignments. I won’t tell you his name. But his...

Refusing to eat food until a particular action is fulfilled is called a “hunger strike.” When Paul was imprisoned, nearly forty people...

In the American judicial system, every criminal on death row who is to be executed has a final meal of his/her choice. Some chose the...

Every ancient city had temples and temple courts. While the temples served as a place for people to worship and store their wealth...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the United States has been saying that looking at a text or texting while...

A “generation” refers to all the people who live within the same time span of 20–30 years. Some of the contemporary terms for previous...

Our generation is aware of climate change. Any time something disastrous happens, we hear it’s because of climate change—flooding,...

Flavius Josephus was a contemporary of the Lord Jesus and the apostle Paul, living between 37 and 100 AD. He wrote two multi-volume...

I have never been in a horrible situation where I didn’t know if I would eat, gun bullets would kill me, or I would be taken as a...

Textual Criticism is the study of variants within any written document. A variant could be anything from a spelling difference (e.g.,...

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, and other apostles wrote the Scriptures without any verse division or word divisions and in...

While watching a documentary on Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, I was surprised that Prince Philip...

One of my friends used to pastor a church in New Delhi, India. He worked among the people from Punjab, a state in Northern India that has...