A religious candle is only as good as the evenings you come back to it. The Tabernacle lamp was told to “burn always” – then tended from evening to morning.
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What Happens to Your Brain When You Die? The Recording Nobody Planned
What happens to your brain when you die? The famous recording of a dying brain was an accident. Here is what it showed, and what science still cannot say.
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How to Stop Letting People Get to You and Ruin Your Day
How to stop letting people get to you without going cold: their moods will still reach you. What you control is whether they walk in and stay all day.
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Can God Hear Your Thoughts? Even the Anxious Ones
Can God hear your thoughts? Psalm 139 says yes, and David’s word for his thoughts means the anxious ones. The only other verse using it answers with comfort.
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Who Said “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil”?
The line is not in Edmund Burke’s writings. It grew from Burke’s 1770 call for good men to “associate” and Mill’s 1867 speech, and got Burke’s name in 1920.
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Fleabag Meaning: Somebody Finally Saw Her Look Away
Fleabag meaning, read closely: her asides to camera felt like honesty but worked as a hiding place. The best moment is the one person who notices her using it.
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NASA’s Swift Telescope Is Falling. Its Team Switched It Back On Anyway.
The Swift telescope will fall from orbit within months. Its team switched the instruments back on anyway, knowing it brings the end closer. Here is why.
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What Does the Number 9 Mean in the Bible? The Hour of Prayer
What does the number 9 mean in the Bible? No verse ever defines it. But the ninth hour was 3 p.m., the daily hour of prayer, and the hour Jesus cried out.
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The 9/11 Survivor Tree, 25 Years On: First to Bud, Last to Let Go
The 9/11 Survivor Tree came out of Ground Zero with snapped roots and a burned trunk. 25 years on it buds first each spring, with its scar line still showing.
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Did Jesus Get 39 Lashes? The Gospels Never Give a Number
Did Jesus get 39 lashes? The Gospels never give a number. The 39 comes from Deuteronomy’s limit, which existed so a guilty man would stay your brother.