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...
by Peter James | Nov 15, 2024 | 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...
by Peter James | Nov 14, 2024 | Theodore Frelinghuysen
Leaders of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Netherlands offered Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691-1747) an intriguing proposal. They needed a young, enthusiastic minister to lead four small churches in Raritan. Theodorus assumed Raritan was an adjoining Dutch...
