by Peter James | Jun 5, 2023 | John Maurice
John Frederick Denison (F. D.) Maurice (1805-1872) was a contemporary of Karl Marx. They shared a mutual concern for working people. You may recall that Marx called religion “the opiate of the people.” F. D. differentiated Marx’s view of religion...
by Peter James | Jun 4, 2023 | Mary Byrne
Mary Byrne was a twenty-five-year-old university student doing research in a Dublin, Ireland library in 1905. She discovered a rare fourteenth-century copy of an ancient Irish poem that she translated into English for the first time. Most scholars attribute the poem...
by Peter James | Jun 3, 2023 | Erasmus of Rotterdam
If you ever end up in a feud among family or friends, you’re likely to get attacked from both sides. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, “Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both...
by Peter James | Jun 2, 2023 | Jeremy Taylor
What became of the virtue of humility? It is being passed over today in total silence. Pride, which used to be ranked as one of the “seven deadly sins,” has kicked humility to the curb. It has become in one author’s words, “a weakness or...
by Peter James | Jun 1, 2023 | Gregory of Nyssa
Slavery was considered standard operating procedure in the ancient world. It was deemed necessary to make the mighty Roman Empire economy go. Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335-ca. 395) was a rare dissenting voice who railed against slavery in sermons and writings. His...
