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According to the Greek story of the Trojan War, the Greeks gave a giant wooden horse as a peace offering to their enemies. The Trojans accepted the gift, and placed it within gates of the city. While they slept, Greek soldiers, hidden in the belly of the wooden horse emerged and opened the massive gates…

CULTURE "'Can't you lead a good life without believing in Christianity?' This is the question on which I have been asked to write, and straight away, before I begin trying to answer it, I have a comment to make. The question sounds as if it were asked by a person who said to himself, 'I don't care whether…

These responses actually appeared on real science tests: {{{" "The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects." "Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas." "H20 is hot water, and CO2 is cold water." "To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in…

The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, beating 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. The lungs contain 1,000 miles of capillaries. The process of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide is so complicated…

In a letter to Alexander Campbell about a meeting he was conducting in Nashville in 1860, James Challen speaks of an old man whom Campbell had immersed years before. He says that in spite of all the troubles the Nashville church had suffered at the hands of J. B. Ferguson, “Bro. John Harding, whom you…

Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars Published: 10 December 2006 Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…