Early Christian writers condemned pagan sacrifices while debating among themselves the meaning of the death of Jesus.

In the Old Testament, the altar of sacrifice is where you brought your sacrifices to the Lord. The Levites, the ministers, would throw your sacrifice on that altar that had a continual hot fire going ...

On a wall in my mother’s home, beneath a glassed frame, there hangs a memorial certificate which, along with a Purple Heart, was posthumously awarded to the uncle I never met. On it is the inscription ...

In the 1920s, we already knew that lead was a poison. We had known this for literally thousands of years. And yet we developed leaded gasoline to reduce engine knocking in automobiles. This was not ...

There is a profound stillness that overtakes the soul when one stands at the edge of something vast and mysterious. Like standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon at sunrise, the moment holds within it ...

On a wall in my mother’s home, beneath a glassed frame, there hangs a memorial certificate which, along with a Purple Heart, was posthumously awarded to the uncle I never met. On it is the inscription ...