BLIND BARTIMAEUS, THREE TIMES When I was a senior in high school I began dating a girl who was a Christian. She took me to Young Life meetings every week where I was exposed to a very fundamentalist brand of Christianity, although the local leader was very “soft sell.” I, quite literally, had never heard…

Alexander, the son of King Phillip was born in 356 BCE in northern Greece, or what is often called Macedonia. One of his most well-known biographers, Robin Fox, suggests that three most important personages in young Alexander’s life aside from his father were his mother Olympias, his horse Bucephalus (in Greek: Beautiful head), and the…