by Peter James | Oct 31, 2024 | Martin Luther
What prayer is appropriate for Halloween? I considered a line from a 1909 poem by Alfred Noyes, “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us,” but decided against it. October 31, 1517, was...
by Peter James | Oct 30, 2024 | Richard & Reinhold Niebuhr
Gustav Niebuhr immigrated from Germany to America in 1885 at eighteen. He worked as a farmhand until he answered the call of a sermon to enter the ordained ministry. He went to seminary, interned for an evangelist in San Francisco, and married the evangelist’s...
by Peter James | Oct 29, 2024 | Tertullian
Marcion of Sinope was a second century church leader who was later censured for differentiating the Old Testament God from the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament. He dismissed the Old Testament God of wrath in favor of an edited New Testament deity...
by Peter James | Oct 28, 2024 | Irenaeus of Lyons
There are hidden treasures tucked away in ancient monasteries: a professor found a fragment of the oldest Bible in an obscure eighteenth century book in an Egyptian monastery library, archeologists discovered rare gold coins hidden in an abandoned German monastery,...
by Peter James | Oct 27, 2024 | George Gillespie
Some people don’t act their age. Consider Mozart, who composed his first symphony at eight, or Joan of Arc who reversed the wartime fortunes of England at seventeen, or Pascal, who designed a calculator at nineteen. Today’s story concerns the outsized...
