Gospel of John Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory

If you've ever searched for a flashlight or candle in a power outage, you can understand why the authors of John's Gospel feel the way they do about light. Darkness can be scary. After all, you can...

There was no air conditioning in 1st-century Judea, which might be why the writers of the gospels talk about water a whole lot. It figures that a group of people living through hundred-degree summe...

The Greatest Thing Since Sliced BreadWay back in Exodus, God gave the people bread when they were starving out in the desert, and now we eat it with peanut butter and fluff and a tall glass of milk...

Sheepherding was big business in the ancient world. Farmers weren't able to look after their sheep by themselves and still maintain the farm, so they hired out shepherds to do the job. A shepherd w...

The cross has become one of the most enduring and well-recognized Christian symbols throughout the world. You'd almost never guess that it started out as a way to kill people.Imagine seeing a littl...