This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

Beloved, it is only those whom the Spirit of God has enlightened that will understand that wisdom is all about the knowledge of the truth and its application. A man without true wisdom is like one ...

Last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost which commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The feast reminds us that God is ever-present in our lives, hopefully informing and inspiring our actions. This ...

One of the divisions of the Hebrew Bible is the Ketuvim, the Writings, or otherwise called Wisdom literature. The wisdom tradition is an ancient one, originating in Mesopotamia, Canaan and Egypt.

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

Some of my favorite Old Testament Scripture is the Wisdom Literature. These are the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon, which were written by King Solomon who was considered one ...

When I returned to Harrisonburg, I began to see how the built environment reflects and shapes our values and desires.

“Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate.” So ran the solemn advice of one Horace Fletcher, the 1920s food faddist and evangelist for the idea that we should chew our food to a liquefied pulp ...

I don’t know about you, but I recall always being told, growing up, about the importance of wisdom—as some kind of life-learning objective, as if it were the pinnacle of cognitive development. There’s ...