God has a long nose. I realize how that sounds, so let me say it again properly. When Moses hides in the cleft of the rock and the glory of God passes by, God proclaims his own name: “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, …

This morning, before breakfast, you read a weather forecast, two text messages, a cereal box, and a road sign, and you did not read any of them the same way. Nobody taught you this. You simply know that “70 percent chance of rain” is a probability, that “we need to …

“There is no God.” That sentence is in the Bible. Twice, actually. If verses were bullets you could fire one at a time, Scripture would be an atheist tract, and your pastor would owe the congregation a very awkward retraction. Of course, the verse in full reads: “The fool says …

Allow me to write a short letter to a reader in the year 5025. “Dear future person: today was rough. My phone died this morning, so I missed the meeting, and my boss hit the roof. My wife says I need to touch grass. Honestly, this whole week has been …

Frank kicked the bucket. Go ahead and translate that sentence into Japanese. If you translate the words, Japanese readers will spend the rest of the chapter wondering why Frank assaulted a pail. So you do what every translator does: you translate the meaning instead, and you write “Frank died.” Clean. …