In the Western world it is well known that the great teachers often used stories and parables to convey deeper meanings. The parables of Jesus in the New Testament, the saints’ lives written in the ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

Once upon a time, in a quaint little village nestled in the heart of India, lived a wise old man named Guru Raghav. Word of his wisdom and knowledge had spread far and wide, and many traveled from ...

“Jesus Teaches the People by the Sea” by James Tissot. (Credit: Wikicommons/Public domain.) Listen At the heart of Christian discipleship is the call to prayer. As followers of the Lord Jesus, we are ...

Reading parables is a good way to enjoy the wisdom of the Bible and to be instructed by life lessons. Today’s column will give a brief overview of parables. A parable is a story told in a simple ...

In this age of the transistor, there is a sense in which God may be said to have given us “transistorized wisdom.” The Book of Proverbs contains hundreds of verses that present truth in the smallest ...