In 1630, Puritan leader John Winthrop, who became the best known governor of the Massachusetts Colony, likened his vision of a moral society to Jesus’s description in Matthew of a city on a hill, a sentinel of the kingdom of heaven for the entire world to see. In recent decades, this...
In Israel, the Jewish People dedicate Tu B'Shvat to the reviving of the Land by planting trees — an idea close to God’s heart, for He Himself planted trees!