by Peter James | Nov 22, 2024 | Peter Datheen
Lady Elizabeth de Grave left church one Sunday despondent over the state of her soul. After listening to the preacher pronounce God’s judgment for those who transgress the law, doubts about her salvation kicked into high gear. Maybe she was kidding herself and...
by Peter James | Nov 21, 2024 | Benjamin Brawley
Teaching was his “sacred calling.” He tried his hand at preaching but soon realized his skills were best served by providing young African Americans with the best education possible. Benjamin Griffith Brawley (1882-1939) showed early academic prowess,...
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...
