by Peter James | Nov 20, 2024 | John Durname
John Harvard and his wife Anne sailed to America in 1637. John was assigned to lead a Boston church but died within the year of tuberculosis at the tender age of 31. He donated his library of four hundred books and half of his considerable estate to New College of...
by Peter James | Nov 19, 2024 | Anna Warner
Two teenage girls, Susan and Anna, were plucked from their swanky Manhattan townhome to relocate to a dilapidated farmhouse on a deserted island that years earlier had protected the Hudson River Valley from invading British forces during the Revolutionary War. Their...
by Peter James | Nov 18, 2024 | Jeremy Taylor
It was a time of massive religious and political upheaval. England was in the throes of a civil war, and Christians were at each other’s throats. Whoever was in charge, whether Protestants or Catholics, could find nothing good in each other and wielded the sword...
by Peter James | Nov 17, 2024 | Clara Ann Thompson
John and Amelia Schenck owned a farm in Deer Park, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati) during the Civil War. Their family farm also provided refuge for escaped slaves, aided by the Underground Railroad. John and Clara Ann Thompson fled their enslavement by crossing the Ohio...
by Peter James | Nov 16, 2024 | Jeremiah
It may be the most vexing question in Scripture–why do the wicked prosper? David asks it in the Psalms (Ps. 73.3), as does Habakkuk (Hak. 1.3-4), and who can forget Job’s running debate with his friends over seeming injustice? The prayer Jeremiah (ca. 650-570...
