Mineke Schipper is the author of "Never Marry a Woman With Big Feet: Women in Proverbs From Around the World," forthcoming from Yale University Press. Earlier this year, the Spanish Roman Catholic ...

We're awash in knowledge in 2023, but do you think our general level of understanding is greater? Do you think we're wiser? I'm not so sure, so when I was challenged to re-read through one of the ...

When I was very young, I remember going with my parents to visit my great-aunt Charlotte in another neighborhood in Philadelphia. She was of a great age and lived in a house that I thought very dark ...

From Proverbs 31, I want to share three things mothers are or mothers do in order to honor them this Mother’s Day. Proverbs 31 says, “She works with eager hands” (vs. 13). In this proverb, we see ...

As a personal finance coach, I have spent years teaching the principles of wise money management. But long before financial literacy became a buzzword, the Bible already provided profound wisdom on ...

For many of us, time slips through our fingers like sand. It’s an elusive commodity we can’t buy back but desperately seek to manage. Even before the buzz of digital calendars and the ping of ...

Love is such a beautiful thing, and everyone has their own way of expressing it. Some people love songs or poetry, and some just use love quotes or even love proverbs to try and put that most ...

Recently a social media influencer who loves to post in Dholuo made a post about Luo police officers. He warned Luos against friendships with Luo police officers because they will never help you when ...

There is a proverb to suit every occasion. That may be why proverbial wisdom contradicts itself so much. If a beautiful young woman is swept off her feet by a balding nerd, we say that opposites ...