By Brian Jennings I was pretty excited about my first opportunity to referee a basketball game. It was a meaningless intramural game. What could possibly go wrong? You guessed it. Everything! For some reason, the action on the court was faster and more confusing with a whistle in my mouth. As for the players, […]
By Simon Presland I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to be present in Solomon’s court to hear him speak. People came from around the world to listen to him—2 Chronicles 9 states that the Queen of Sheba came to test him with hard questions but realized he had unfathomable wisdom. But […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness If you were a student in an average American public school system, at some point you were probably introduced to the works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Hemingway, and other authors who have written the classics. In college, I broadened my knowledge about black authors, reading American classics such as Native Son […]
By Tammy Darling In Proverbs 4:7 we are told, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom” (King James Version). Sounds great, we think, until we realize that we don’t really know how to get wisdom. Although wisdom is a gift from God (Proverbs 2:6), it requires effort on our part. Solomon’s wisdom wasn’t […]
By Cheri Lynn Cowell My heart sank. I bit my bottom lip and shook my head in disbelief as I read the letter. My good friend was on the phone weeping over the accusations another friend of ours had leveled in the two-page indictment I was reading. I knew that a third person—a person […]
