Volume 4

The efforts to rebuild the temple hit quite a few roadblocks. Some of those roadblocks were external—sabotage from neighboring troublemakers,...

But why? It's the shortest verse in the Bible, and it's often quoted as a reminder that the Son of God wasn't some emotionless stoic devoid of...

Mount Moriah loomed in the distance, and with each footstep, the mountain seemed to grow bigger and more intimidating. Abraham has spent much of his...

The Israelites spent 40 years wandering through the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land. That's 40 years of setting up camp and taking down...

In a decorative shoebox, sitting on the fourth shelf of the bookcase in our living room, is a letter I spent the past year and a half avoiding. I...

A little step is insignificant. A little step, taken once every day for ten years? Less insignificant. Over time, all those little steps add up to a...

The Internet is everywhere. There was a time, not too long ago, when that wasn't the case. "Going online" used to mean double-clicking the little...

If there's one thing we love doing, it's promoting tolerance. I say "we," but I guess what I mean is "the recurring sentiment pervading Western...

For seventy years after Nebuchadnezzar's raids, the city of Jerusalem lay desolate. Its walls were toppled and burned, and the once awesome temple...

How's your perception? More to the point, how much gets past you? The human mind is capable of processing a tremendous amount of sensory...

In order to prove that God was no longer required by humankind, a coalition of prominent scientists joined forces with the goal of discovering some...

A wise man once said, "Know thyself"—but a wiser man said, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"...