Coral appears exactly once in most English Bibles, in a single half-verse in the book of Job. It is never...

Ask a jeweler what makes a diamond a diamond and you will hear two words: hardness and light. It is...

Every rainbow is a sermon. After the flood, God set the bow in the clouds as the sign of His...

Jacinth is the Bible’s fire-colored stone, and it appears in two visions that could hardly be more different. In one,...

“Satan’s seed” is a phrase that sounds like it comes from a horror film, and it has frightened more than...

It is the question that surfaces in hospital waiting rooms and after the third betrayal, in the middle of a...

Does Satan live forever? The question sounds simple, but it hides two different questions inside it. The first is, “Will...

Most battle stories build toward the ending. The Bible’s account of Satan’s final battle does the opposite: it hands you...

An uncut agate is one of nature’s best-kept secrets. Pick one up on a riverbank and you will hold a...

Here is an honest starting point: the Bible never mentions vermilion. Not once. The brilliant red-orange pigment — made in...