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Charles Simeon–curmudgeon mentor
One of my favorite figures from evangelical history is Cambridge Holy Trinity Church pastor and mentor Charles Simeon. He is the subject of one of the chapters in my Patron Saints for Postmoderns. Here...
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How Charles Simeon mentored a generation and kept evangelicalism alive in...
Simeon’s Brigade England’s churches were reawakened by 1,100 young ministers, who learned their craft from an awkward, unpopular, and sometimes angry mentor. Chris Armstrong (Published in Leadership...
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Those odd, brilliant men and their scientific schemes: the religious...
When I arrived at Christianity Today International back in 2002 as the fresh-faced managing editor of Christian History, I was told that our next issue was going to be on some aspect of science....
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How the Episcopalian and Eastern Orthodox Churches in America explored...
Check out this Orthodox history Facebook site’s account of what happened when the Episcopalian and Eastern Orthodox Churches in America dialogued and neared union . . . until an orthodox saint named...
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C S Lewis’s spiritual formation: confession, purgatory, Mary, and other...
I’ve long thought Protestantism has been hasty (as Luther himself was not) to eliminate the practice of confession to a priest–among other Roman Catholic (or the larger category: “catholic”) practices...
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Beyond C S Lewis: Glimpses of 20th-century British literary Christians from...
One of the more fascinating books I’ve read in the last 10 years is a sort of group biography by the prolific Catholic writer Joseph Pearce. Called Literary Converts (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2000),...
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Anglican bishops operating as Catholic priests? What next, cats and dogs...
Any headline involving the words “Oxford professor” (turns out it’s a church history professor, too!) and “hissy fit” has me intrigued, to say the least. Add the fact that I had no idea what an...
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The making of the King James Bible, part I: Glimpses from Adam Nicolson
These are the first of a few goodies I’ll be posting from Adam Nicolson’s book God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, of which I posted a brief review (really just a few observations)...
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Mark Galli on the recent troubles in AMIA (Anglican Mission in the Americas)
CT managing editor and AMIA minister Mark Galli on his denomination’s current troubles: Some facts in the current crisis remain in dispute, and it will take months or years to sort them out. We need to...
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