Palestina ni nchi ya Waisraeli waliyopewa na Mungu wa Yakobo. Hata hivyo, hawakutimiza masharti. Mungu aliwaagiza kuua kila mtu katika nchi ya Kaanani na miji yake yote. Waisraeli, wakiongozwa na Yoshua, waliua watu wengi katika...

Wait!”What?” I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.You got to smell it first. It’s the proper way to cup coffee.”Cup...

Why didn’t Jacob simply refuse to go along with this bold, obvious swindle? Again, Robert Alter’s insights are invaluable. When Jacob asks, ‘Why have you DECEIVED me?’ the Hebrew word is the same one used...

Mungu alilibariki taifa la Israeli katika misingi ya kidini na si katika misingi ya kisiasa au misingi ya kihistoria; na asili ya dini ya Kikristo ni kutoka katika taifa hilo ambalo Biblia imelitaja kama taifa...

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and...

Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” – Owen

With lead he shaded love into the woman’s eyes.

Are you two you know?” Jacob pointed at us. ” Together? Together? ” I didn’t get a chance to answer. Cam spun me around and kissed me, right there between the two buildings. It was...

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

Sorry. Sorry. Don’t hit. Bitches be scary when they hit.

When I woke up and the dark wasn’t gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.”That is the best of all things we can do...

What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the...

Don’t call it death; call it moving to Heaven.

With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming — a fraction of a second, that’s all — Jacob would have thought of me — who had held him, my own...

Just being a Christian doesn’t mean you’re better than anyone. Ever notice how Jesus was a servant instead of a master?

You do right by me, I’ll show you a life most suckers can’t even dream of.

There’s nothing to took forward to any more if you don’t have dreams,” he said. “Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.

Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.

I’d run you know. It’s like when you’re really busy doing something and you don’t have time to think about things. Well, I’d run and run and run so I couldn’t think.

Did you know that ‘I told you so’ has a brother,Jacob?” she asked cutting me off. “His name is ‘Shut the hell up’.

Come on, don’t you ever stop and smell the coffee?

The central fact of biblical history, the birth of the Messiah, more than any other, presupposes the design of Providence in the selecting and uniting of successive producers, and the real, paramount interest of the...