Baptizing An Olive Tree

Baptizing An Olive Tree

Would You Baptize an olive tree? This is not a rhetorical question, but a story that happened to a man in Galilee. His name is Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Arab Israeli who served as the Archbishop of All of Galilee from 2006 to 2012. He is a member of the Melkite...
Mark Twain: In Praise of Spiritual Crankiness

Mark Twain: In Praise of Spiritual Crankiness

Missouri may have one of the strangest state nicknames. Legend has it that in 1899, a Democratic congressman (a species that now borders on extinction) named William Duncan Vandiver said, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats,...