This year, while moving mulch in our garden, I mulled over some of the Biblical passages dealing with horticulture and imagined how writers for the popular press, generally a fecund group, would apply them. After a couple of unfruitful leads, I decided to try once more to reap a rich harvest from the pages of the popular press. I went to the episode of the Burning Bush in Exodus 3. At last—I hit pay dirt! This was not entirely unexpected. In what was, I think, my first “The Bible in the News” column, I referred to an inspired headline—“Searing […]
