by Peter James | May 8, 2025 | Francis Thompson
Wilfrid Meynell opened his mailbox in 1887 to retrieve a small bundle of poems written on dirty scraps of paper. As publisher of the London magazine Merry England, he was accustomed to receiving variously shaped parcels. He filed the bundle and retrieved it three...
by Peter James | May 7, 2025 | St. Teresa of Avila
Some Christians hear God’s voice in visions and experience God’s presence through dreams. So-called mystical Christians” are people who not only think great thoughts about God, but experience God deep in the soul. Teresa of Avila (1515-1581) was a...
by Peter James | May 6, 2025 | G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith (G. K.) Chesterton (1864-1936) was a funny, absent-minded author who liked to write in train stations. It was not uncommon for G.K. to become so engrossed in his compositions that he would miss the train he was supposed to catch. On one such occasion, he...
by Peter James | May 5, 2025 | John Calvin
Socrates is famous for his dictum “Know thyself.” The pursuit of self has become all-consuming in our day. Self-awareness is now the coveted brass ring. John Calvin (1509-1564) is hardly the first person people think of in relation to the self. People have...
by Peter James | May 4, 2025 | Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius (1491-1556) was a professional soldier. (For the record, I live in metro DC, a city full of career soldiers!) When the French military invaded Spain in May 1521, Ignatius and his Spanish comrades fought valiantly to hold a strategic fort. In the ensuing...
