by Peter James | Feb 23, 2025 | Teresa of Lisieux
It was Christmas Eve in the year 1886. A fourteen-year-old girl attended midnight Mass with her family in an enormous cathedral in France. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was grieving her mother’s recent death and plagued with self-doubt. She wrote of worship that...
by Peter James | Feb 22, 2025 | Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes (1556-1626) was an academic prodigy from the start. He studied so hard that his parents had to force play on him. Okay, that wasn’t my problem! The headmaster of his first school recognized his scholarly prowess and arranged a scholarship for...
by Peter James | Feb 21, 2025 | John Wesley
Imagine yourself sitting in a small gathering of Christians. The appointed leader asks the same questions of each participant. You know the questions beforehand since they are asked at every meeting. How will you answer when the questions are asked of you? 1. Am I...
by Peter James | Feb 20, 2025 | St. Francis of Assisi
It is commonly called The Prayer of St. Francis. I hate to burst the bubble, but there is no record of the prayer anywhere in Francis’ writings. The earliest mention of the prayer associated with Francis is in a 1912 French periodical. The prayer gained popularity...
by Peter James | Feb 19, 2025 | J. R. R. Tolkien
He was a young professor sitting at his home office grading papers. One student inadvertently left a page blank in his bluebook exam. The professor described what happened next. “I wrote in it, ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'” You may...
