Month: February 2019
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The Back Page – We Shall See
A Chinese story suggests the danger of assessing too quickly the nature of changes that intrude into our lives.An old farmer had a son and a horse. One day the […]
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The Back Page – Hebrew Poetry
For centuries, Western poetry focused on rhyme and meter: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Here, both lines end in long “e,” and […]
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The Back Page – His Own Generation
“David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep” (Acts 13:36).We are creatures of time. You and I inhabit a mere sliver of history […]
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The Back Page – Truth
There are two kinds of truth—objective and subjective.Objective truth is verifiable. Because there is a reality “out there” to which our statements about it should correspond, answers are (or should […]