by Peter James | Jun 10, 2023 | Celtic Caim Prayer
The ancient Celts were agrarian people. They lived close to the soil and relied on favorable tides and seasons to grow their crops. Farming was done entirely by hand and life was hard. The people who worked the land needed a way into prayer that could accompany them...
by Peter James | Jun 9, 2023 | J. R. R. Tolkien
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was something of a renaissance man. His output was impressive, almost superhuman. He was a successful politician (a member of the Netherlands Parliament and Prime Minister from 1901-1905), an erudite theologian (an earned doctorate and...
by Peter James | Jun 8, 2023 | Henry Alford
My grandson Luke enjoys baseball trivia, so I periodically send him obscure questions about major league baseball. He has become a student of the game, so it’s really hard to come up with questions he can’t answer. Here’s one he didn’t...
by Peter James | Jun 7, 2023 | Gerald Manley Hopkins
Prayers are sometimes answered in unimaginable ways. Take the story of Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). He wasn’t particularly successful as a poet. He published only a few poems during his lifetime. Nor was he effective as a priest. People in his church...
by Peter James | Jun 6, 2023 | Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) spent the first thirty-one years of his life doing what brilliant people do. He formulated Pascal’s theorem of geometry at sixteen. He created the first calculator at nineteen. He invented the syringe, the hydraulic press and a whole...
