From Adam to Abraham Adam, Seth, Enosh; Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta,…

A graphic artist interprets Rhina P. Espaillat’s poem “Butchering.”

And will AI-generated books go to hell? n one of those meandering conversations of the post-service coffee hour, a member of our church looked forward to the leisure of heaven: there would be so many good books to read. Not so fast, said our pastor. There won’t be books in heaven. What would we need them…

Our Lord expects works from us. If you see a sick sister whom you can relieve, show compassion to her. It is amusing to see souls who, while they are at prayer, fancy they are willing to be despised and publicly insulted for the love of God, yet afterwards do all they can to hide their…

Julia Ward Howe, who penned the Civil War anthem “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” spent her later years working for peace. ulia Ward Howe woke up one November morning in 1861 in a room at Willard’s Hotel in Washington with a poem in her head that would make her famous for the rest of her ninety-one…

I traveled to meet Martin Shaw, the British bard, mythologist, and storyteller who wants to offer an orphaned generation a home again in ancient stories. ong ago, long ago, long ago, there was a village and in that village stood a hut and in that hut was a baby.” This is how the English-Irish storyteller Martin Shaw…

Education is for encouragement, not for escape. At the opening of The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis announces that “this is not going to be a school story,” going on to describe quite a wretched-sounding school indeed, or so he means to describe it. It is co-educational and the people who run it “had the idea that…

Where did the concept of religious liberty originate? Roman governor found a way to tell a real Christian from a false one. Make them curse Christ. A true Christian, he reported, could not be made to do so. Pliny governed Bithynia for the Emperor Trajan around AD 112. He received reports about Christians in his province.…

The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him. Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me. You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where…

Historical Records From Adam to Abraham To Noah’s Sons Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah. The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham and Japheth. The Japhethites The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites. The Hamites The sons of…