Academia would suffer an emotional meltdown of epic proportions. Campus grief counselors would be booked solid through 2025. Reactions on Twitter and Facebook would break the Internet. Media fact ...

“Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate.” So ran the solemn advice of one Horace Fletcher, the 1920s food faddist and evangelist for the idea that we should chew our food to a liquefied pulp ...

Wisdom literature is one of the most accessible yet perplexing genres within the Bible. The Book of Job explores the nature of suffering, Proverbs gives guidance on matters as routine as avoiding ...

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An old joke asks: Why do old people read the Bible so much? Answer: They are cramming for the final exam. Reading the Bible is a good place to find answers, and it is a good place to go to understand ...

Dorothee Sölle’s best-known book, Suffering, was published near the end of the Vietnam War, an event that interrupted America’s myth of innocence 50 years before George Floyd’s death interrupted it ...

As someone who has spent years studying and teaching personal finance, I have come to appreciate the depth of wisdom found in biblical financial principles. In an age where financial strategies are ...

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