Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the Declaration of Independence and what inspired the Founders to ...

Jesus approaches the fig tree, sees that it has produced no fruit, and curses it. Then, right after that, he marches into the temple and condemns the rank commercialism he finds there.

I’m not convinced that Israel is (or we are) the fig tree. I really don’t like to allegorize the parables at all. It’s dangerous territory. But if we must allegorize, maybe we should think about the ...

And with every page you turn you’ll discover something new about your Bible. Even under Nathanael’s fig tree. Andy Cook is the founder of Experience Israel Now and a resident of Peach County.

Sometimes rabbis studied or taught under a fig tree, so perhaps Nathanael is a scribe or a rabbi. Or perhaps what Jeremiah thought is true: that the fig tree represents the tree of knowledge in ...

Figs and fig trees are familiar to a wide cross-section of human society, ... It is well known that figs are a recurring theme in religion: it is the first fruit tree mentioned in the Bible, ...