I'm not sure any society was ever really egalitarian, but there is a sort of egalitarianism in the Hebrew Bible: "Every man under his own fig tree, equal in the eyes of Yahweh." It's interesting ...

“I did as much as I could,” said he. “I told my people to let the Mau Mau disappear like the roots of the fig tree.” In the streets of Kitale, crowds cheered his every appearance, and ...

Seeing so many downed trees in western North Carolina reminded me of a tree described in the Bible. It is in a parable Jesus tells about a vineyard owner who wants to cut down a fig tree (Luke 13: ...

"A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the man working the vineyard, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit ...

A layer of dense clay lay just below the surface, so he used 660,000 one-pound charges of dynamite to blast as many holes in the ground and planted a fig tree in nearly every hole. The entire ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...