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 | Aug 23, 2023 | Jeremy Taylor
Death is inevitable yet you wouldn’t know it by all our desperate attempts to avoid the subject. Americans don’t die; we only pass away. Our Puritans forebears have much to teach us about dealing openly and honestly with death. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)...
by Peter James | Jun 2, 2023 | Jeremy Taylor
What became of the virtue of humility? It is being passed over today in total silence. Pride, which used to be ranked as one of the “seven deadly sins,” has kicked humility to the curb. It has become in one author’s words, “a weakness or...
