by Peter James | Dec 16, 2023 | Thomas Carter
Thomas Theullosson (T.T.) Carter (1808–1901) was twenty-four when he was called to his first pastorate at a small church in rural England. It was a long-standing custom in the church for the rector to give a mince pie, a loaf of bread, and quart of ale to every...
by Peter James | Dec 15, 2023 | Girolamo Savonarola
Active in Florence, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) was a Dominican friar who called the medieval Roman Catholic Church to account for its moral corruption. There have been plenty of virtuous popes in church history, but Pope Alexander VI wasn’t one of...
by Peter James | Dec 14, 2023 | Leighton Ford
“There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who enter a room and say, ‘There you are’ and those who say, ‘Here I am.'” The quote isn’t original with me. It’s attributed to various people of history. I would put Leighton...
by Peter James | Dec 13, 2023 | Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan went to live with the Kellers in Alabama as Helen Keller’s (1880-1968) teacher. The story of Anne’s tutelage of Helen has been well documented, a relationship that spanned forty-nine years. Anne and Helen travelled to Boston’s Perkins...
by Peter James | Dec 12, 2023 | St. Nicholas
How did we get from St. Nicholas to Santa Claus? It’s a challenge to separate truth from fiction when it comes to ole’ St. Nick. This is what we know with relative certainty. Nicholas (270-343) was a church bishop in Myra (modern Turkey) during a momentous...
