It may be an anomaly of English, but it seems like many of the distressing words in English start with the letter D. The dictionary informs us that de (and the closely related di and dis) is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin used to indicate privation,...

Ireland is full of sheep. As we drove through the rural areas we saw sheep everywhere. One of the first things you notice about the sheep is that they are all marked with a splash of color: red, pink, green, blue. Of course, we wanted to know why, and the answer was...

Anyone who has visited Ireland cannot help but be struck by the patchwork of stone walls that cover rural areas, especially in the south and west of the country. These walls are an iconic part of the Irish landscape. The first night we spent on our Irish tour was in a...

Today I read about the consequences of David's numbering the people in 1 Chronicles 21:1-17. When the prophet Gad confronts David with his sin, he offers David three choices of punishment: famine, attack by his enemies, or the Angel of the Lord bringing a plague of...