Before God said “Let there be light,” there was darkness — “darkness was upon the face of the deep” (Genesis...

Follow the blue thread through the Bible and it leads somewhere extraordinary. It starts in a dyer’s vat on the...

Brown never shouts. It has no rainbow, no throne room, no dye worth a fortune. It is the color of...

It begins with a worm. The Hebrew phrase tola’at shani — “worm scarlet” — names the source of one of...

Hold a mustard seed between thumb and forefinger and you will barely feel it — a speck, a dot, something...

The question came from the religious professionals, and it sounded reasonable: “Why do the disciples of John fast often, and...

A “talent” was not a compliment in Jesus’ day. It was a unit of weight — roughly twenty years’ wages...

To feel this parable, you have to attend the wedding. In first-century Galilee, a wedding was not a twenty-minute ceremony...

We call it the Parable of the Prodigal Son, but the story’s true scandal is not the son who ran...

It is one of Jesus’ strangest sentences, and it sits in the middle of His most famous sermon: “Give not...