The twenty-third Psalm, which I think even the world will tell you is probably the best-known piece of scripture in the entirety of the Bible and is undoubtedly, for many, many people, the most beloved piece of Scripture, as well, is …
An elementary art teacher once asked her class to draw pictures that would illustrate or portray the concepts of peace and tranquility. The students for the most part predictably latched onto the typical or stereotypical scenes: blue …
We live in the Information Age. News hits us from the four corners of the earth, making the journey in mere minutes. Images flash before us on the screens of televisions, computers, and phones. The Internet hums and thrums in and out of …

(15) "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Proselytes were common in the days of the apostles. Acts 2:10 records their presence, with the Jews, in Jerusalem on Pentecost. Nicolas, "a proselyte from Antioch," is numbered in Acts 6:5 as an original deacon. Finally, Acts 13:43, …
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the author presents a scene in which a character, Treebeard, an Ent or Shepherd of the Trees, expresses deep sorrow and anger that the enemy’s minions have been felling huge swaths of trees on his border to feed their weapon-producing smithies. Decades ago, environmentalists seized on this scene and a few others, declaring that Tolkien must also be an environmentalist. Before long, Greens in many nations lauded Tolkien’s magnum opus as a manifesto for their cause. It did not seem to matter to them that Tolkien was not an environmentalist. He was …
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