Syria's Mar Musa monastery provides the tastiest mulberries, and its services draw from Eastern Orthodox Christian and Sufi ...

The Bible tells us that there is seed time and harvest time. It also tells us that what you sow you must surely reap. And one of Nigeria’s greatest reggae crooners, Majek Fashek put it in his popular ...

Like the fig tree, our own appearance – our “leaves” – has its purpose: but let’s consider that we’re really here to bear the ...

Making homemade fig vodka by infusing fresh figs into a smooth spirit for a rich, naturally sweet flavor.

At one point in its history, the New College of Florida, which was founded in 1960 and located in Sarasota, was one of the most elite schools in the ...

Researchers recently identified food DNA on the Shroud of Turin — a finding that suggests the burial cloth believed to have wrapped Jesus Christ may have been contaminated over time. In a preprint ...

20 April is the feast day of Zacchaeus of Jericho. We all know the account of Zacchaeus climbing a tree to see Jesus. However, it turns out not to have been a sycamore tree at all. This is the story … ...

Megan Truett named her newly opened florist shop and boutique Peony and Fig because the peony was one of the first flowers her husband gave her and the fig is the first tree mentioned in the Bible.

Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

People In many countries around the world cannot imagine their cuisine without olive oil. Apart from gastronomy, the gift of oil from the magnificent olive tree is also used today for other purposes, ...

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