Spoiler alert: If you haven’t yet seen Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, don’t read any more here. Clint was all Clint in his latest, Gran Torino, but he did a mighty fine Jesus, too. I’m assuming, given the spoiler alert above, that you’ve already seen the movie. I loved it, especially for its ending. But of …
Ah, the stately cedars of Lebanon. They are celebrated in the Bible as the tree of choice for the great Jerusalem temple built by Solomon with the help of his Phoenician friend Hiram, the king of Tyre. Solomon’s own palace complex included “The House of the Forest of Lebanon” (1 Kings 7:2-5). So grand, these trees were the …
That bit about the lion lying down with the lamb isn’t actually in the Bible, not exactly, but never mind. It’s such an evocative image, and we all know what it means — peace, radical peace, serene and idyllic, right up there with beating swords into plowshares (which is in the Bible, twice for good …
