Essays
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Genesis 5 might seem like the Bible’s most boring chapter—just a genealogy with names, ages, and that phrase “and he died” repeated nine times like a funeral drumbeat. But buried in this list is one of the weirdest details in Scripture: Enoch didn’t die. Everyone else lived 900+ years and still died. Adam? Dead at… Read more
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I was writing about Cain’s wife when I had this wild realization: If you actually read Genesis 1, God already told us there were other humans—”Male and female created HE THEM” (plural). Then Genesis 2 zooms in on Adam and Eve specifically in the Garden of Eden. So when Cain leaves and “knows his wife”… Read more
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The Double Move: How Halloween’s Date Traveled from May to November By: Emmitt Owens(Index #09112025-10102025) Unraveling a Universal Human Pattern Most people know that Halloween falls on October 31st—the night before All Saints’ Day. But few realize that the Christian feast now celebrated on November 1st began its liturgical life on a completely different date: Read more
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The Hidden Virtues of Flying by Night: A Case for Spontaneous Living In our meticulously planned, calendar-driven world, the phrase “fly by night” has acquired almost exclusively negative connotations. We associate it with unreliability, poor planning, and questionable business practices. Yet this dismissive attitude overlooks the profound advantages that spontaneous, adaptive approaches to life can Read more
