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

The incident with the fig tree troubles many people when they first encounter it. Stripped of context, it can make Jesus seem petty and impulsive.

Slip under the shade of a fig tree with me and listen to the unusual way Jesus told one of his future disciples that exciting days were just ahead.

But whether the forbidden fruit was an apple, fig, peach, pomegranate or something completely different, it is worth revisiting the temptation scene in Book 9 of Paradise Lost, both as an homage ...

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 ...

In Luke 13, Jesus tells a parable about a barren fig tree. The tree is planted in a vineyard, which sounds weird, but fig trees were often used as trellises in vineyards. The owner is unhappy because ...

A missing man who was murdered more than 40 years ago has been found - after a seed from a fig in his stomach grew into a tree. Ahmet Hergune was killed during the conflict between Greek Cypriots ...

The Tree of Life Garden is just a few yards past the opening to the Light of the World Garden — also sculpted by Johnson — that opened in 2016 at Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi ...