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The orthodox, historical consensus of biblical interpretation.
Key question: “What is the most widely accepted and historically grounded understanding of this text?”
25,889 sermon illustrations through the Traditional lens
In the summer of 1943, a lab assistant named Mary Hunt walked into a Peoria, Illinois, fruit market and picked up a bruised cantaloupe covered...
Cinematic retelling of Jesus teaching the greatest commandment
In the winter of 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday and traveled instead to Prague. What he found in...
Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis in grade school. But what actually happens inside the chrysalis is far more radical than we were told....
In July 2016, Tim Duncan retired from the NBA after nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. There was no press conference. No farewell tour....
In the final act of *The Return of the King*, Aragorn has just been crowned King of Gondor. The kingdom is restored, the war is...
The James Webb Space Telescope carries eighteen hexagonal mirror segments, each one precisely ground from beryllium and coated in a whisper-thin layer of gold. No...
Yahweh commanded His people to bind blue thread upon the borders of their garments—not for ornament, but as a *zikaron* (remembrance).
On December 10, 1996, in Stockholm's Concert Hall, the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored her for...
He placed his confidence in King Saul—and Saul hunted him like a beast through the wilderness.
On October 31, 1512, Pope Julius II unveiled the completed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City — over twelve thousand square feet of...
In 2012, biochemist Jennifer Doudna and microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier described something remarkable hiding inside bacteria — a molecular system called CRISPR-Cas9. It works like a...
When Marcus first walked into the church basement for his recovery meeting in downtown Chicago, he carried a list of failures longer than the twelve...
In 1636, Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford was stripped of his pastorate and banished to the remote town of Aberdeen. The authorities intended exile as punishment,...
In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...
In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right side. London's opera houses...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant minds in Europe, inventor of the mechanical calculator, pioneer of...
Joseph Exell identified five corrupted standards by which multitudes measure duty, each leading toward *thanatos* (death).
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel shut himself inside his home at 25 Brook Street in London and began to compose. For...
Imagine stepping into a world where the familiar becomes strange, where the comforting cadence of daily life is replaced by a disorienting dance of shifting rooms and fading faces. This is the poignant reality that envelops Anthony, the protagonist of...
On April 12, 1955, hundreds of scientists and reporters packed the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr....
On September 10, 1960, sixty-nine marathon runners lined up in Rome for the Olympic final. Among them stood Abebe Bikila, a twenty-eight-year-old corporal in Emperor...
In March 2020, as the world locked down and scientists scrambled to understand a terrifying new virus, a distributed computing project called Folding@home issued an...
Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old when a country doctor applied a mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The treatment destroyed...