Did Bible’s ‘Rachel’ appear in Gaza?
By SHARON K. GILBERT January 27, 2009 ACCORDING to a YNET News article, published January 25, 2009, two prominent Jewish rabbis, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef claim that a mysterious woman who reportedly appeared to IDF soldiers in Gaza is none other than Jacob’s wife, Rachel. The storyContinue Reading
Christians: It’s Time to Stand
By SHARON K. GILBERT January 22, 2009 ALTHOUGH Stephen King hardly professes to believe in Christ as Savior, he does spend a great deal of his writing in a quest for spiritual truth. King’s complicated characters fight internal and external battles, and that is–for me, at least–why his fiction risesContinue Reading
Counting to Zen
By SHARON K. GILBERT November 18, 2008 SO, A FEW DAYS AGO, Derek and I were sitting in our new living room, watching HGTV, one of the few cable television stations that actually holds our interest these days, when the umpteenth designer said for the umpteenth time — this roomContinue Reading