by Peter James | Jul 26, 2024 | Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (1954-) was a thirty-year-old moderately successful fiction writer who worked an assortment of odd jobs to pay the rent. She was also a down-and-out drunk with an eating disorder. She was walking one Sunday morning through a flea market when she heard...
by Peter James | Jul 25, 2024 | Michel Quoist
Michel Quoist (1921-1997) was born into a working-class Catholic family in France. He went to work at age fourteen after his father’s death and later returned to school to become a Catholic priest. His first assignment was working with youth in a section of a...
by Peter James | Jul 24, 2024 | T. T. Talmadge
Thomas De Witt (T. T.) Talmage (1832-1902) accepted a call to pastor a church in Brooklyn, New York, in 1869. His offer letter was signed by seventeen people, the total number of members of this dying urban church. He preached to a cavernous sanctuary of empty pews...
by Peter James | Jul 23, 2024 | Charles How
Charles How (1661-1742) served as a courtier in King Charles II’s court, nicknamed the “Merry Monarch” for his pleasure-seeking approach to the English throne. When Charles II died, his brother, King James II, took over and assigned the courtier...
by Peter James | Jul 22, 2024 | John Gresham Machen
John Gresham Machen (1881-1937) was nominated for a promotion as a professor at Princeton Seminary in 1926, having taught New Testament there for twenty years. Back in the day, faculty promotions required the approval of the General Assembly, the highest governing...
