A Chinese proverb offers wisdom on life's unpredictable nature. It suggests good fortune is rare and may not repeat, while ...

As the old Japanese proverb says, if you have the pleasant experience of eating something you haven’t tasted before, you life will be extended by 75 days. Never heard that proverb before, but real or ...

This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher for 36 years, he has been on a mission to ...

Native American Cherokee proverb teaches how to live a good life. It says people should help others and leave kindness behind ...

I am continuing to read and meditate on the Proverbs this month. I just saw a notebook that a friend of mine compiled a few years ago from his study of the book of Proverbs and it is almost 400 pages ...

As a lectionary preacher who works mainly on Sundays, I have spent much of my preaching life grazing the well-fertilized pastures that my tradition has laid out for me. Sometimes I press up against ...