Harold Otto

Solomon tells us to consider the ant and be wise. Not knowing much about ants, I would like to lift the lid on a beehive and see what wisdom might be gleaned there. Like ants and other communal insects, honeybee colonies are superorganisms. The colony as a whole equals more

In the wee hours of a Saturday morning, we awoke to shouts and aggressive pounding on the front door. We had only been in bed for an hour or so. Finally, my groggy brain realized that about the only reason someone would awaken us like this would be to announce

Recently, two township officials stopped in for a meeting. During small talk before the meeting, one commented that he didn’t believe he had met me before. He knew my older brother from local auctions and other neighborhood events I seldom attend. The other official commented to my brother, “It's

“Believe it or not, we need to forgive God,” the writer asserted. “When bad things happen, like illness or death or other setbacks, we may become angry with God or blame Him for the perceived injustices. Therefore, we need to forgive Him.” Initially, I rolled my eyes at this and

The first day of the week our children have learned to recognize is Saturday. They recognized the rest of the week days by asking what comes after Saturday or before Saturday. They perfected their elementary counting skills by figuring out how many times they still needed to sleep until it

Studying ancient history has given me a radically different perspective on one of the most well-known Bible stories. We have been taught that evolution is a farce and would proclaim that modern thought has had minimal effect on our view of the Bible. We smirk and chortle at secular descriptions