Adam and Eve teach us that conflict resolution is essential love, according to WSJ contributor Bruce Feiler. He and WSJ's Tanya Rivero also discuss how Adam and Eve's relationship applies to modern ...

Big Spring, Texas / / November 22, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Biblical love stories reveal God’s design for human connection through self-sacrificing devotion rather than self-serving ...

THE FIRST LOVE STORY: Adam, Eve, and Us, by Bruce Feiler. Penguin Press, 306 pp., $28. Bruce Feiler’s quest to find the modern relevance of Adam and Eve took him to all the likely (and some unlikely) ...

Many people today view the biblical story of the first man and woman to be a charming if fanciful tale. But over 2,000 years ago, when Jews and then Christians began to record their interpretations of ...

At 16, Craig Chester fell in love with a boy in his suburban Dallas church. It was the early 1980s—hardly a hopeful time for gay acceptance in the South—and Chester still remembers what his pastor ...

How insights from genealogy can help change the terms of a contentious debate. Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, Christians have struggled to locate Adam and Eve within an ...

Divinely inspired or otherwise, the Old Testament story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is deeply rooted in the Western psyche. Eve occupies mere pages of the Genesis epic, but women have spent ...

Playwright Jenny Waxman has been obsessed with Adam’s first wife, Lilith, since she was a student in Orthodox Jewish day school. Of course, they didn’t teach about her there. “I knew there was more ...