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Towers of Babel

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”  Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.  Genesis 11:4-5 Students of the Bible point to the story of the Tower of Babel as the source of the various languages in the world. The story goes like this: After the world was destroyed by the Great Flood, the descendants of Noah and his sons all spoke the same language. As the population grew, people began to move to new places and form communities.  Several generations later, descendants of Noah settled in the region of modern-day Iraq. They wanted to build a tower to the heavens as a symbol of pride in the city they had created. When God saw this, He understood that if men were united in purpose, there was nothing that could stop them, so he confused their languages so that they could not...
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Fingerless Men

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For although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ" (Colossians 2:5 BSB) My mom's grandfather, Dudley, lost a few of his fingers in a wagon wheel during The Depression. I remember visiting him and my great-grandmother Ruth in their small, darkly lit home in Newton, Illinois when I was barely old enough to talk. They were old, frail people. I don't remember if I ever saw them standing or walking. In my memory, they are permanently seated in two small recliners in their living room, Dudley on the left and Ruth on the right. I was never comfortable in the house. It was too quiet, too dark, too humid, and it smelled like old people.  As an obedient young boy, I patiently sat on the carpeted floor of the living room while my mother made polite, adult conversation that was beyond my ability to appreciate. On the coffee table were a few trinkets to distract me. A snow globe. A dark woode...
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