“I want you to pick up sunflower seeds,” my wife said, “—chocolate cherries. Chocolate cherries are seasonal,” she said “so I doubt they’ll have them.” …

“And Shem begat Arp-, Arp-hax—.” The third grader struggled with his reading. The names defeated him — consonants stacked on consonants, syllables that refused to …

We began with a crashed system and a reboot. We end somewhere else entirely. Look back at where we started. A world created for joy …

As soon as I entered the building, I felt exactly as I had a decade earlier. Someone else occupied the principal’s office now. The same …

God had preserved humankind and all life in the Ark. He had washed away the people, like Lamech, who trusted only in themselves, and preserved …