Christian History (18)
  1. Today on the Almanac, we look to the early church and tell the story of Julian the Apostate, Rome’s last pagan emperor, who died on this day in 363.
  2. Gregory is a bridge between the patristic age and the medieval.
  3. Throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans would work together on the mission field, at home, and abroad.
  4. This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.
  5. 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.
  6. The theme of guardianship permeates Christian observances of Michaelmas, unifying this wide variety of celebrations.