Volume 2

When it comes to art, I have two basic rules: 1) It has to look nice and 2) I'm not paying more than $60 for it. This makes me uniquely unqualified...

Imagine reading through Christ's instructions to the seven churches of Revelation, only to get to the end of chapter three and discover an eighth...

I will always have a lot of respect for Job. He catches a lot of flak for his behavior toward the end of the book, and it turns out, yeah, when...

In Washington, DC, in a museum just down the road from the Smithsonian, there's an old, beat-up piece of wood on display. It's an important piece of...

There are quite a few ways to deal with speed limits. You can perpetually keep your speedometer sitting at five over. You can cheat the system...

The problem with getting older is that it happens when you're not looking. There was a time in my life when no sane human being would have...

The people were terrified—and for that matter, so was their king. They found themselves at the brink of war with an enemy whose army was "as the...

In a little over 24 hours, 2016 will be over. I'm continually amazed at how fast time seems to be moving these days. When I was a kid, time was the...

I have a theory. My theory is this: We're being sabotaged. What's worse, I think we're being sabotaged so subtly that we've become willing...

I have a lot of things I'm thankful for. You probably do, too. And with Thanksgiving just behind us, there's a good chance you recently spent some...

The woman lay still and silent on her bed. She couldn't say a word—but then, she didn't have to. As Peter made his way toward her, he found himself...

For a long time, I was convinced that the world of board games began and ended at the edges of the Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley catalogues....

Your world is a lie. In the year 2199, the human race lost its bitter, drawn-out war against the machines, but not before delivering one grievous...

I know a couple who owns a piece of furniture from the Civil War. The Civil War. It was a huge milestone in the Lallier household when our...

The rubble was silent now. Earlier in the day it had been a temple, the scene of a raucous party where the lords of a wicked nation had gathered to...

It isn't going to last, you know. None of it will. It was never supposed to. Everything you see—everything you can touch, taste, hear, or...

Joseph sat in a pit, staring up at the sky and wondering if his brothers would return to kill him or simply leave him to rot and die. Job sat on a...