After scouring the earth for wisdom, the author concludes that all on earth is vanity. (The Hebrew word for vanity, hevel, is ...

9 Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun-all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome ...

By and large, however, the book keeps a polite distance from gender specifics. Long stretches pass without any mention of men ...

Problem: Who the heck wants to live a life of suffering? Answer: No one. Well, why not just take it easy? Just follow your heart’s delights because the world will continue to turn regardless (as the ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill celebrates the column's 20th anniversary and reflects on just how much ...

I need to save some money this year, but I feel like a failure every time I try What does the Bible offer that will help me ...

Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jews at Qumran apparently read and copied Tobit, The Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6) and Sirach as Scripture ...

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Action is what brings your potential to the fore. Potential is important, but its importance won’t be realised, until it is ...

"I wanted to do right by their families, and leave a historical record ensuring that their full lives, and not just their ...

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis.