1. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Power: How Charles V’s Imperial Burnout Aided the Reformation

    book
    09/21/23
    15 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.
    The Unbearable Weight of Massive Power: How Charles V’s Imperial Burnout Aided the Reformation

  2. Church Fathers: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Pope

    book
    07/29/22
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Gregory is a bridge between the patristic age and the medieval.
    Church Fathers: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Pope

  3. Persecution and Unity: The Edict of Fontainebleau

    book
    10/22/21
    15 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans would work together on the mission field, at home, and abroad.
    Persecution and Unity: The Edict of Fontainebleau

  4. Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian of Love

    book
    08/20/21
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.
    Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian of Love

  5. Cotton Mather's Quest for Assurance

    book
    02/12/21
    16 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    The paradoxical Puritan doctrines of an inability to convert oneself and the command to work out one’s salvation with fear and trembling placed would-be converts like Mather in quite a bind.
    Cotton Mather's Quest for Assurance

  6. Surviving the Dark Night: St John of the Cross

    book
    12/14/20
    12 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.
    Surviving the Dark Night: St John of the Cross

  7. Michaelmas, Griffith Jones and the Protective Power of the Word

    book
    09/29/20
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    The theme of guardianship permeates Christian observances of Michaelmas, unifying this wide variety of celebrations.
    Michaelmas, Griffith Jones and the Protective Power of the Word
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