Keep your fingers crossed
Why talk about crossing one’s fingers at Lent? Because that simple gesture has a lot of meaning behind it and, ultimately, one of the earliest uses was by Christians. I’ve never understood why, on the one hand, we “cross our fingers” for good luck and then, on the other, when crossed behind one’s back, crossed [...]
Why a fish?
One of the most significant statements the early Christians used was “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior.” Because Greek was the universal language then (the New Testament books were written in Greek), Christians often said and wrote, “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior” in Greek. That phrase, if printed as an acrostic (using the first letter of [...]