The United States Congress has declared next month as ‘Cockroach Awareness Month,’ with an initial designation of 1 billion dollars to...

It was in the 1930s and at the tail end of the Great Depression. His mother already had 3 young children, and times were tough. She had...

In the Papua New Guinea society where my family and I once lived, wrongs could be “evened out” with gift exchanges. Such exchanges were...

For many years in Papua New Guinea, Joice and I lived in a series of “bush houses.” Our bush houses had grass rooves and woven cane for...

Clay was plentiful in Papua New Guinea where we lived, but it was not the kind for making pottery. It was red and sticky, on the trails,...

Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, has written many books that attempt to bridge some of the disagreements between...

In the Parliamentary system of government, there are coalitions, parties in which even rival groups find some areas of agreement....

C.S. Lewis wrote a book about grieving (A Grief Observed,) soon after his wife “Helen” (Joy) died. It was based on notes and observations...

The word “holy” occurs 551 times in the NIV translation of the Bible and 576 times in the New King James version. Surely, it is a word...

I was asked recently what some of my pet peeves were. Being a linguist, I looked up the standard definition of the phrase and found that...