HANANIAH
The first time the Israelites raised a sword in their own defense, they'd been free for less than three months. They had walked out of Egypt under a column of cloud. They had crossed the Red Sea on dry ground. They had drunk water from a struck rock at Rephidim....
HANANIAH
The Bible was written in a world where women's voices were often unheard, their names often unrecorded, and their actions often credited to men. And yet the book that emerged from that world refuses to leave them out.It tells us about Eve, who first received the promise. About Sarah, who...
HANANIAH
When you or someone you love is sick, words start to fail. Doctors give diagnoses. Friends offer condolences. Family says all the right things and then runs out of things to say. And somewhere in the silence between visits, you find yourself looking for words that go deeper than any...
HANANIAH
There's a kind of loneliness that doesn't come from being alone. It comes from being unseen by the people who should see you. Used and then forgotten. Talked about, but never quite talked to.A pregnant Egyptian slave named Hagar knew that loneliness very well. She'd been handed over to a...