According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this writing board is almost 4,000 years old. Researchers say that students used a board like this to write school exercises. Rather than erasing lessons from a slate writing board as students did…
People who don’t know history can get mired in despair, but people who do know history know that good things and bad things have happened over and over in history. They know that what is happening right now is never…
Merriam Webster defines history this way: History—a chronological record of significant events, often including an explanation of their causes. History has a birthday. God tells us about history’s birthday in the very first verse of the Bible. Creation is the…
When the church began in the first century AD, Christians did not build special buildings for their worship and fellowship activities. As the church spread throughout the Roman Empire, the government saw it as an illegal movement and would not…
In mid-July, Ray and I visited Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller was born to Arthur Keller, who had been a Confederate colonel during the Civil War, . . . . . . and…
Ray and I are thankful to be waking up this week in one of our special happy places. We are in New Harmony, Indiana. We first came here when I was 21 and Ray was 22. We had been married…
