A grandmother holds her newborn granddaughter for the first time, looks into her tiny face, and whispers the name her...

The hotel elevator panel skips from 12 to 14. The airline has no row 13. A friend refuses to get...

The young king could not sleep. Solomon had just inherited the throne of Israel from his father David, and the...

The ledger is open on the desk, and the numbers are damning. Every debt recorded, every failure itemized, nothing overlooked....

Three knocks on the door. Three days in the belly of the fish. Three denials before the rooster crowed. Three...

It is midnight in Egypt, and every Israelite family is awake behind a door marked with blood. Outside, a cry...

A man limps across a river at sunrise. His hip is out of joint, his thigh is swollen, and he...

In the garden of Gethsemane, on the night before the cross, Jesus knelt among olive trees to pray. The name...

It happens on the clock first, usually. You glance over at 1:11 — morning or night, it doesn’t matter —...

Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar does not simply grow wings. It dissolves. Enzymes break down nearly its entire body into...