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The Acts of the Apostles overflows with language of "disputation," "conference," and "reasoning." The apostles "came together to consider the matter"; "It pleased the apostles and elders and the whole Church"; they assembled "with one accord." This pattern reveals how...
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On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and spoke on behalf of...
First, the public conscience is gratified by the prosperity of the righteous.
On September 26, 1983, just after midnight, Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat at his post inside the Serpukhov-15 bunker south of Moscow. Suddenly, the...
An Intellectual Contrast: The intelligent man communicates wisdom; when he speaks, men are enlightened, their minds set to thinking, their spirits refreshed.
The seeds of alteration are everywhere sown, yet by strange deception, each man believes himself exempt from this universal law.
On the evening of October 28, 1787, William Wilberforce sat at his oak desk in his home at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, and scratched a...
In 1905, a twenty-six-year-old clerk at the Swiss Federal Patent Office in Bern submitted a paper to the journal *Annalen der Physik* that would reshape...
Exell (1887) offers this Victorian meditation: We are not to expect permanence in our acquisitions.
The rich man perverse in his ways lacks this wisdom entirely.
The word carries an evil connotation—recalling the serpent's cunning in Genesis 3—yet here Solomon redeems it to mean discernment rather than deception.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.—Piety a peculiar ornament to the aged. I. Who may properly be called old people? Old and young are relative terms admitting different significations. Children always think their parents are old. Those who...
This is no superficial cleanliness but a composition free from wrong admixture.
Every morning before dawn, George Washington Carver walked the fields near Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, collecting plant specimens and praying. He called these walks his...
George Washington Carver would rise before dawn at Tuskegee Institute, walking the Alabama woods in what he called his "consultation with the Creator." One morning...
When a wild, offensive tree grows in a garden and the gardener cuts its top, if it sends forth sprouts as bad as before, he digs up the root itself.
Exell's Victorian commentary examines this through the lens of labour justice, tracing how Elohim transformed Adam's punishment into humanity's greatest dignity.
In the gritty streets of Gotham City, Arthur Fleck wanders like a lost soul in a desolate landscape, his laughter a haunting echo drowning out the silent screams of despair. The fluorescent lights flicker above, casting sharp shadows that mimic...
They have beaten me and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Proverbs 20:35) Joseph S. Exell's 1887 illustration draws a striking parallel between surgical anaesthesia and moral corruption. Just as modern medicine...
In August 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn and made an...
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat in the President's Room of the U.S. Capitol, the same ornate chamber where Abraham Lincoln had...
First, by way of excellency: wisdom itself surpasses the fairest woman in the world in beauty and worth.
The wisest person must contemplate two humbling truths: his knowledge against what remains unknown, and his knowledge against what he ought to have learned.
As we reflect on Proverbs 3:5-6, which invites us to trust in the Lord with all our hearts and lean not on our own understanding, let’s consider how this scripture can speak directly to our experience of humiliation—a feeling many...