Derek Ouellette: Did Early Christians Serve in the Military?
This is a guest post by Derek Ouellette, whose web site is here. If you are not currently following him, you should be. Derek used to work in marketing and advertising for Cameron’s Bookstore in...
View ArticleLent: Then and Now
“Even now,’ declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your hearts and not Your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and...
View ArticleA Prayer for the Day (St. Augustine)
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the…...
View ArticleSaint Nicholas
Happy St. Nicholas Day! Well, here’s my annual (when I remember it) Saint Nicholas Day post. Yes, I know, I don’t give any other historic Christian saints this kind of attention, but the figure of...
View ArticleThe Founding Mothers of Mother’s Day
From United Methodist Communications: In the late 1860s, before there was an official Mother’s Day holiday in the U.S., a Methodist mom organized “Mothers’ Friendship Day,” at which mothers gathered...
View ArticleMacrina on Eliminating Evil
I found this quote in a Facebook group I am a part of, so I cannot personally vouch for it. I trust it is correct. This is Macrina (the Younger) teaching her brother Gregory of Nyssa: “For evil must...
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