“Judith Showing the Head of Holofernes”, illustration of the Apocryphal Book of Judith, Chapter 14, from Gustave Doré’s (1832-1888) illustrated edition of the Bible. ************************************* In the book of Judith from the Apocrypha, the heroine saves the besieged Jewish city of Bethuliah. She does so by deceiving, and then killing the invading general Holofernes, […]
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From This Week in Christian History at www.Christianity.com One of the most heroic acts of the twentieth century reached its conclusion seventy-two years ago yesterday, August 14, 1941. That is when the Franciscan friar, Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), lifted up his arm to receive a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Two weeks
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By Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), 1885 There lived in olden times a good and kindly man. He had this world’s goods in abundance, and many slaves to serve him. And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying, “There is no better lord than ours under the sun. He feeds and clothes us well,
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Today’s meditation is just for fun. I do not know who wrote this piece, and so I cannot say for sure whether or not the following conversation really took place. But it contains such good theology and so much that I agree with, that I believe it may indeed be divinely inspired. –Leon Stier
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In sixteenth century Holland it was against the law to worship anywhere outside of the official institutional church. Among the free-thinking Reformers, there was a group that have since become known as the Mennonites. In 1569 a man from this group named Dirk Willems was arrested for being illegally baptized and for holding
Pictured above: Scars of a whipped slave named Peter, photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. In his own words, “Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped, and he discharged the overseer.” The slave pictured here escaped from a plantation
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The following piece entitled The Little Way of Ruthie Leming was written by best-selling author Eric Metaxas for the May 7, 2013 Breakpoint message http://www.breakpoint.org — a ministry of Prison Fellowship. As a journalist and cultural commentator, my friend Rod Dreher seemingly had it all. In addition to his strong Christian faith, Rod
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The following article entitled The Jackie Robinson Story was written by author Eric Metaxas for the April 15, 2013 Breakpoint reading ( http://www.breakpoint.org / a ministry of Prison Fellowship). The words are famous even among those who know little about baseball: “I’m looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back.”
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