Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Her taste for philosophical conundrums having been whetted rather than sated by decades of nothing to do, Ging often likes to speculate at length on whether we’re an incarnation that became a refuge, or a refuge that became an incarnation.

While plenty of people called the Coca-Cola headquarters to complain about New Coke’s taste, I’ll bet no one called to complain about the visionary in the fetishy eyeglasses in charge of the situation.