In the Christmas story, as recorded in the book of Matthew, wise men presented gifts to baby Jesus. Two of these gifts were frankincense and myrrh. These are costly perfume oils derived from certain ...

Poetic nuances are the norm with trees and their meanings. "I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree," wrote American poet Joyce Kilmer, an exceptionally revealing sentiment when ...

God is a big fan of metaphors. He built them into his world in all kinds of ways, and then he points to them throughout Scripture, all to help us understand who he is, who we are and what our role is ...

Those beautiful white and gold angels you see on Christmas trees were originally monsters. At least, that is the claim made by scholar Esther Hamori in her book God’s Monsters. Hamori writes that ...