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Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Day Quotes The following selected quotations are from Martin Luther King’s writings. They give the reader some spiritual understanding of the man which this national holiday of the United States of America celebrates. All quotes are from the online documents at the Martin Luther King Jr. Directory. The Negro and the Constitution […]
Douglas Gresham, An Interview
An Interview with Douglas Gresham For many Christians, particularly evangelicals, C. S. Lewis has achieved a sort of mythic status. In a way, he’s been a mentor and spiritual father figure to several generations of thoughtful Christians. But even many of the most ardent Lewis fans were not introduced to Lewis-as-actual-father until the release of […]
Douglas Gresham, An Interview
Back into the wardrobe with The Complete Chronicles of Narnia INTERVIEW BY MIRIAM E. DRENNAN Beginning with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, published in 1950, C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series has entertained and educated readers for over 45 years. HarperCollins recently issued The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, commemorating the 100th anniversary […]
C.S. Lewis At 100
Walter Unger At the recent C.S. Lewis centennial celebration, Lewis’s former secretary Walter Hooper shared how he had won an argument with the famous British author. Lewis was worried that upon his death, his books would stop selling, leaving his brother Warnie without an income. “That will never happen,” exclaimed Hooper. “Why not?” retorted Lewis […]
Anglican Priest, Father John Polkinghorne, Honored
Friends, Father John Polkinghorne, a priest of our Church in England, has just been honored for his work as a scientist, who connects his work with religion. The Ecumenical News article is printed below. Cheers, Edward Chinn eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 15 March 2002 US$1 million Templeton prize for scientist-turned-priest New York […]
Kierkegaard
This article is very challenging – Rowland. Bunnies, Ducks, and One Great Dane How Kierkegaard stole my faith. by James Grimmelmann And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son. — Genesis 22:10 Zvi and I are going down the stairs at the Park Street T stop in Boston when […]
Kierkegaard: Another Note
I just read the article on Kierkegaard. It seems that this reader of “Fear and Trembling” has missed the point of the book. More nuanced commentators, like Paul Ricoeur for example, argue that Kierkegaard is talking about faith as a pre-ethical moment which is completely unconditional. But without that moment the ethical command ‘Do not […]
Nate Saint And Other Martyrs Of The Ecuador Mission
(8 Jan 1956) NATE SAINT AND OTHER MARTYRS OF THE ECUADOR MISSION (8 JAN 1956) In the dense rain-forests of Ecuador, on the Pacific side of the Andes Mountains, lives a tribe of Indians who call themselves the Huaorani (“people” in their language, Huao), but whose neighbors have called them the Aucas (“savages” in Quechua). […]
Gladys Aylward, Missionary To China
GLADYS AYLWARD, MISSIONARY TO CHINA (3 JAN 1970) Gladys Aylward was born in London in 1904 (or a few years earlier). She worked for several years as a parlormaid, and then attended a revival meeting at which the preacher spoke of dedicating one’s life to the service of God. Gladys responded to the message, and […]
Abraham Lincoln
by F.W. Boreham The massive personality of Abraham Lincoln is like a granite boulder torn from a rugged hillside. Too gigantic to be localized. he bursts all the bounds of nationality and takes his place in history as a huge cosmopolite. As Edward Stanton so finely exclaimed, in announcing that the last breath of the […]
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