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Bernard Of Clairvaux
Bernard, third son of a Burgundian nobleman, was born in 1090. His brothers were trained as soldiers, but Bernard from youth was destined for scholarship. One Christmas Eve as a child he had a dream about the infant Christ in the manger; and the memory of it, and consequent devotion to the mystery of the […]
Augustine Of Hippo
BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN (28 AUGUST 430) Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) was one of the greatest theologians of Western Christianity. (In his day the Mediterranean world consisted of an Eastern, Greek-speaking half and a Western, Latin-speaking half, with different ways of looking at things, and different habits of thought.) He was born 13 November 354 in North […]
The Martyrs Of New Guinea (2 Sep 1942)
New Guinea (also called Irian), one of the world’s largest islands, has a difficult terrain that discourages travel between districts, Consequently, it is home to many isolated tribes, with many different cultures and at least 500 languages. Christian missionaries began work there in the 1860’s, but proceeded slowly. When World War II threatened Papua and […]
Constance And Her Companions
THE MARTYRS OF MEMPHIS (9 SEP 1878) In 1878 the American city of Memphis on the Mississippi River was struck by an epidemic of yellow fever, which so depopulated the area that the city lost its charter and was not reorganized for fourteen years. Almost everyone who could afford to do so left the city […]
Augustine Of Hippo
SAINT GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL Perth, Western Australia A Sermon preached by The Precentor, Canon Nigel B. Mitchell 27 August 2000 Email the Preacher Tomorrow the Church remembers Saint Augustine of Hippo. There are two great saints of the church called Augustine. Both were Bishops, and both had a huge influence over the church of their day. […]
Jonathan Edwards
JONATHAN EDWARDS, SCHOLAR, PREACHER, MISSIONARY (24 MAR 1758) (NOTE: Edwards died on 22 March, and is commemorated on that date on the Lutheran calendar. He is here transferred to 24 March.) Jonathan Edwards was the last and greatest of the great New England Puritan preachers. Some historians account him the greatest intellect of the Western […]
Soren Kierkegaard
The first postmodern ironist Julian Evans Monday 30th October 2000 We live in a passionless age, wrote the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. That is why he speaks to us today, believes Julian Evans “It’s a miserable existence to be a genius in a provincial town,” as Soren Kierkegaard once remarked to the King of Denmark. The […]
St. Vincent Of Lerins
Peter E. Gillquist: Potato? Potahto? Let’s call St. Vincent of Lerins 02/03/2001 By Peter E. Gillquist Christians in the heart of the Bible Belt know how often we get into seemingly unsolvable doctrinal debates. You know how the discussion goes. “Anyone who believes in infant baptism is out of his mind.” “Well, my pastor doesn’t […]
Einstein
Improperly Dressed (Albert Einstein) It was not unusual for the great physicist, Albert Einstein, to win medals. What was unusual was for Einstein to wear them. When awarded two gold medals by the British Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society, Einstein’s wife Elsa had to repeatedly remind him to pick them up at the Foreign […]
Andrew Carnegie
Superior Attitude (Andrew Carnegie) – 1.229 The young Andrew Carnegie, later to become one of the great captains of 19th century industry, began his climb to the top working in a telegraph office. “…John P. Glass, manager of the front office, depended more and more upon Andrew to handle some of the routine administrative details […]
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