A word of tree, a whisper of stone

Have you ever looked at a snowflake? I mean really, really close! If you have, you have probably noticed that they are like marvelous exq...

If we want to understand the radical nature of some biblical passages, it is often quite informative to flip them upside-down. Inspired by ...

Here is a joke from a long ago:     A man was reported to have said in a pub: “Milos is an incompetent imbecile!” At the police station he ...

In the darkest corner of the Rutgers Exegetical Archive Library (REAL), residing in the pulpit pedestal, we recently made another interesti...

What is more precious than gold? And what gold sparkles more than gold?     Last Monday a small group from our church went for a bible cla...

Do you have the Tree of Life at home? That one with magical fruit and healing leaves? Many people do on Christmas, only they don’t know it...

This year as our Advent and Christmas art I picked an orthodox medieval icon painted sometimes around 1405 by a famous Russian iconograph...