January 29, 2016

By the 1500’s, more than a thousand years had passed since commoners had read the Word of God for themselves. It was only available in Latin. Translation was illegal, and attempts to do so were destroyed. Burning books? It’s hard for us to imagine, but knowledge is power, and English Bibles were once destroyed for […]

Long before the tech bubble of the 90’s or the more recent real estate bubble was one that rocked Holland about 400 years ago. It was the Dutch tulip-craze bubble. Tulips arrived in Holland in 1593, and no one had ever seen tulips before. Their blooms were so vibrant, far more concentrated than any other

Pakhom was a poor Russian farmer who worked hard to eek out a living. He and his wife were happy with their lives, though Pakhom had one grievance. He wished he owned the land he worked. Winter came, and the poor farmer heard of land for sale. It seemed far out of reach, but Pakhom

C.S. Lewis may have been the most popular Christian apologist of the twentieth century. He was a philosopher and lauded scholar, and yet, he never lost touch with the common person or even children. Lewis’ faith wasn’t blind acceptance but the product of years of asking questions. In fact, he urged his students at Oxford