• Words of wisdom: Meet St. Augustine, the man, not the city Published 11/06/2009 at 11:16 a.m.

  Anyone who has visited the beautiful Florida city of St. Augustine knows how rich the city’s past is. But, did you ever wonder just exactly who St. Augustine, a key figure of antiquity, was?

• Words of Wisdom: The rise of Islam and the Qur’an Published 10/22/2009 at 9:23 p.m. 2 Comments

  Islam means, “total surrender to the will of Allah (God).” The Five Pillars Of Islam are: prayer five times a day; profession of faith; alms; fasting; and pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime.

• Words of Wisdom: Aesop was a fabled storyteller Published 10/15/2009 at 8:26 p.m.

  Much of the life of the renowned writer, Aesop, is shrouded in mystery. Aesop is said to have lived about 600 B.C., and legend has him being born on the Greek Island of Samos, according to Herodotus.

• Words of Wisdom: Buddhism is the path to happiness Published 10/08/2009 at 7:58 p.m.

  Buddhism is a religion which, first of all, claims to help people find happiness. This happiness is called, enlightenment by Buddhists and comes about as the result of a transformation which occurs within.

• Words of Wisdom: Taoism is a way of life Published 10/01/2009 at 10:09 p.m.

  Taoism is a both a religion and a philosophy of life that stresses the essential unity of the universe, reversion, polarization (yin and yang), eternal cycles, leveling of all differences, relativity of all standards, divine wisdom and return of all ...

• Words of Wisdom: Moses to Moses, there was none like Moses Published 09/24/2009 at 10:16 p.m.

  During the Dark Ages, under Barbarian rule, much of the Greek philosophical literature of Antiquity was lost to the western world. This included any comprehensive knowledge of the works of Aristotle within scholarly Judaism and Christianity.

• Words of Wisdom: Dead Sea Scrolls supply important data Published 09/17/2009 at 10:11 p.m.

  The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called The Qumran Scrolls, were discovered by two Bedouin shepherd boys in a cave near the Qumran area in the northwestern region of the Dead Sea, in Palestine, in 1947.

• Words of Wisdom: Early Jewish writings traced to Greece Published 09/10/2009 at 8:57 p.m.

  The word “Judaism” appears for the first time about 170 B.C., in the second book of Maccabees, written in Greek. We find it, for example, in chapter 2, verse 21. Its intended meaning was to contrast the Jewish religion with ...

• Mystery shrouds origins of popular term Published 08/21/2009 at 12:33 p.m.

  Before the curtain goes up on a play, you will often overhear actors being greeted with “Break a leg!”

• Wisdom is what you make it Published 08/14/2009 at 10:43 a.m.

  It was Socrates who first said,”Wisdom begins in wonder.”

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