Some years ago, a co-worker told me the story of the Vacuum Cleaner and the Bow. My co-worker was by nature a neatnik, putting his dirty clothes in the hamper and his mail in the trash as a matter of ...

It's small, wooden ladder, perched under a church window. Old wood. Dusty, even from a distance. It's the kind of thing a janitor might use to reach the high glass. And for almost 360 years, no one ...

When someone leaned a ladder against the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem centuries ago, they likely didn't imagine it would stay there for good. There's nothing sacred about the Immovable ...

JERUSALEM -- One of the first things tour guides point out about Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre Church, Christianity's holiest shrine, is a wooden ladder perched on a balcony just above the main entrance.