Thirty days hath September,April, June, and November;February has twenty-eight alone,All the rest have thirty-one,Excepting leap-year, that’s the timeWhen February’s days are twenty-nine.
Anacreon in Heaven
The War of 1812 had been fiercely raging for two years when Francis Scott Key,a Washington attorney was sent to the British naval command to secure therelease of a prisoner when the fleet began to bombard the placements of Americanfortifications in Bal…
Little Questions
By all accounts, the very first catechism—a manual ofChristian doctrine drawn up in the form of questions and answers for thepurpose of instruction in thefaith—was compiled by the English scholar Alcuin sometime in the 8thcentury. It wa…
My Picks for Most Significant Archeological Discoveries
1. The Rosetta Stone2. The Dead Sea Scrolls3. Assurbanipal’s Library at Nineveh4. Robinson’s Arch in Jerusalem5. Kibbutz Ginnosar Boat6. The Ebla Library7. The City of Troy8. Caesarea Maritima9. Sodom and Gomorrah10. The City of Pompeii11. Kin…
Quo Vadis?
Henryk Sienkiewicz was aninternational phenomenon a century ago–at the end of the nineteenth and thebeginning of the twentieth centuries. He was trained in both law and medicine. He was a respected historian. He was a successful journ…
The One, True Sanity
What first attracted G.K. Chesterton to Christian orthodoxy, he remarked, was that “it was attacked on all sides and for all contradictory reasons.” Fellow skeptics found the monks too meek and the Crusaders too bloody, the vestments too showy and …
Education and Faith
“Education is inescapably a religious discipline. The content, methodology, and the very culture in which education takes place are the product of the theologies which drive them. There is no neutrality. When parents choose between …
Awaken
The Great Awakening touched every sectionof the colonial domains of England in the New World—from northern-most NewEngland to southern-most Georgia. And its impact was enormous. Interestingly, this cultural and spiritual phenomenon was enti…
Christocentric Pro-Life
“Fight for the Children” is a powerful new music video from a new generation of Pro-Lifers–offering great hope that the struggle for the sanctity of life will continue uninterrupted into the future.
Boring Is Good
In his masterful novel The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane traced the effects of war on a single Union soldier, Henry Fleming, from his dreams of soldiering, to his actual enlistment, and through several battles of the all too uncivil War between t…
All of Grace
”What sweet consolations, what deft motivations, what strong demonstrations there are for us in the grace of our God.” Thomas Chalmers
The Covenanter and the King
The Marquess Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll (1598-1661) defied Oliver Cromwell’s English Protectorate and invited the exiled Charles II to return to Scotland to receive his crown on this day in 1650. A Scots Presbyterian, Argyll was the leader of…
Running with Hope
“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” Kathrine Switzer, Women’s Marathoning Pioneer
