HISTORICAL

FOR NO WORLDLY PURPOSE, BUT OF LOVE: OCTOBER 6

TODAY WE HONOR THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM TYNDALE (1494-1536), martyred on this day, 6 October 1536. Outlaw to church and state, he was put to...

WHY I LOVE YOU: READING TYNDALE

THERE WERE NO DENOMINATIONS. No Baptist. No pentecostal. No Presbyterians. Other than a few renegade bands (Lollards among them), there...

LANGUAGE IS THE ONLY HOMELAND

A BELOVED FRIEND OF MINE, an author, has listened to the audio version of my TYNDALE book more than thirty times. Perhaps forty. Though...

MEDICINE FOR A BLUE LUTHER

HE WOULD LAY IN BED FOR DAYS. Do nothing. Achieve nothing. Take no food. His thoughts dark, pit-of-hell, slaveship dark. Bullied by one...

THE LANGUAGE OF CHRISTMAS

TRY, IF YOU CAN, to remember the first time you heard the Christmas story—the awe it inspired as you took every word to heart, every...

LUTHER: NOT THE ONLY SHOW IN TOWN

MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546) ALWAYS COMMANDS CENTER STAGE when it comes to the Protestant Reformation, and it is right that he does. The...