Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. —Matthew 6:28 These lines, say Botanists Harold Moldenke and his wife Alma, do not refer to lilies, which are rare ...

except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Today’s first reading walks us through the precursor to the ...