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Anna Warner

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...
Anna Warner

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...
Anna Warner

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...
Anna Warner

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...
Anna Warner

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was the foremost theologian of his day. Many regard him as the first great Christian philosopher. His father urged him to go into politics, but Anselm wanted to study in a monastery. It was before the age of universities, so...