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 ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

"The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction." — Proverbs 1:7, (World English Bible) I'm going to lay my truth right here on the line. I don't want ...

There is a proverb for every occasion; that may be why proverbial wisdom is so contradictory itself. It seems so obvious to me now and I can hardly fathom how I didn't see it before. So, I have lined ...

If you're like most Christians, you've probably tried to read through the Bible at some point — and maybe you've fallen off track. Maybe you started strong but got bogged down in Leviticus. Or perhaps ...

When it comes to life in Mzansi, South Africans know that laughter is the best tonic. Inspired by the original Madam & Eve cartoon by Stephen Francis & Rico below, we called on Daily Maverick readers ...