His name was Bede. I don’t know of any other names he had. It is a simple, almost humorous sounding name for one of the most significant scholars in history. It is because of Bede that historians can “fill in…

His name was Bede. I don’t know of any other names he had. It is a simple, almost humorous sounding name for one of the most significant scholars in history. It is because of Bede that historians can “fill in…
When we use the word “hero” we usually think of someone in the military fighting against impossible odds, but persevering to keep the cause alive. Do you ever think of educators and scholars as heroes? Military heroes have famous names…
How is it that we can go to a bookstore today and find great works of antiquity such as the writings of Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Tacitus, Tertullian, Augustine, and Ambrose? How is it that today we have at least 5,800…
Seventeenth century England saw much political and religious turmoil; resulting in the execution of a king, a civil war, restoration of the monarchy, and continued persecution against Christians who did not conform to the official dictates of the state. John…
It’s hard to escape the meaning of Christmas. Even when some people try to substitute “Happy Holidays” for “Merry Christmas” or “Holiday Tree” for “Christmas Tree”, we still have the symbols that decorate homes and businesses across the land. It…
When you celebrate Thanksgiving, is your celebration directly linked to a massacre by English soldiers against Pequot Indians in 1637? I have already written about the Pequot War, showing that there is no historical link between that massacre and the…
Those who are currently attacking every vestige of what is good and noble in America continue in their deconstruction by now assaulting Thanksgiving. That’s right…the celebration that hearkens back to Christians giving thanks to God for survival from a harsh…
Over the past few years I have been reading and hearing that America’s traditional Thanksgiving celebration is actually the celebration of a massacre by the Pilgrims against hundreds of Indians. I have seen articles by Nicole Breedlove in Huffington Post…
His full name was Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Some historians have called him “the Last Roman”. He was from an ancient Roman senatorial family. Boethius was a Christian, and a government worker in the service of Theodoric, the Gothic king…
A number of years ago a Catholic friend of mine gave me a beautiful bookmark with a prayer by Francis of Assisi. Although I am not Catholic, I appreciate the spirit in which the bookmark was given, and the more…