Commentary

The importance of growing food and fiber for a burgeoning population is often lost on city- and suburb-dwellers. Yet, as troubled times bring rising food costs and commodity shortages, people may focus more attention on the details of production, processing, and distribution of basic agricultural necessities, including vegetable produce, poultry, meat, and dairy...

The word “hallowed” means made holy or consecrated. There is nothing hallowed in the celebration of Halloween. Like some other holidays that originated in paganism but are celebrated by “Christian” churches today—albeit with new names—Halloween also marched right out of pagan religious practices and into mainstream religion. New labels were applied to centuries-...

Many of the prophecies of the Old Testament were meant for our time. Learn how God, through a humble farmer, called out His people for their sins and how that message applies today.

Many people have a “red letter” edition of the Bible, which prints in red ink the words spoken by Jesus. But even with Jesus’ words printed in red to draw attention to them, some seem to misunderstand the things Christ actually said and taught. A “red letter” edition of the New Testament of the Bible was first printed in 1899, the idea of Louis Klopsch, editor...