Journey With Jesus

About 4,000 years ago a family of semitic nomads left Ur of the Chaldeans, perhaps in southeastern Iraq near Nasariyah. They settled in Haran, Turkey, on the Syrian border. In Haran, after the father Terah died, his son Abraham heard the voice of God to continue the journey: "Leave your country, your people, and…

Edwin Muir (1887–1959) was a poet, novelist, translator, and critic, born in Deerness, Orkney Island, Scotland. In 1939 he converted to Christianity, and in 1955 he became Norton Professor of English at Harvard University. Muir published nearly thirty volumes of poetry and prose, and eighteen volumes…