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New England Missionaries and the American Indians
We have been broken up and moved six times. We have been despoiled of our property. We thought when we moved across Missouri River and had paid for our home in Kansas we were safe, but in a few years … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, new-england-missionaries
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Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus of Nazareth Who was Jesus? Jesus the son of Joseph and Mary was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judaea around four to six B. C., or according to the Roman dating system of the time, 747 … Continue reading
Being a Christian Scholar in a Secular Academic World
The culture wars of our times have been centered in universities since the emergence of the Counter Culture in the 1960s. University scholars have often taken the lead in progressive stances on ethical, cultural, and religious issues. For many years … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, General Essays
Tagged academe, Christianity, faith, god, philosophy, Religion, scholarship, secularism
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Understanding Divine Providence: Montaigne and the Fear of Death
The life and Essays of Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French Catholic philosopher, reveals how accepting the will of God helps a person face the overwhelming fear of mortality–in other words, to embrace death. Montaigne was neither saint, priest, nor … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, God's Providence, Michel de Montaigne
Tagged bible, Christianity, Death, faith, god, Jesus, Montaigne, Providence
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Modernity and Martyrdom: Dying for Providence
One of the great challenges to a person who believes that God’s will is always present is that Providence orders a world of growing irreligiosity, violence, terrorism, and atheistic ideologies. The divine plan is clearly beyond the human ability to … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, martyrs, Providence
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The Virgin of Guadalupe
In 1759 in the coolness of an October morning just before dawn in the forest of southern Quebec, English soldiers stealthily crept up to a sleeping Algonquin village. On a signal from their commander, Robert Rogers, his men, the Rangers, … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, faith, Jesus, mary, saints, virgin-of-guadalupe
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Joseph Ratzinger and Providence
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was a theologian, academic, writer, and historian of Christianity who believed in Providence, that God’s will is present throughout time and place. Providence is the theme of the Psalms, indeed the entirety of the Bible; … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, pope-benedict-xvi, Providence
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The Jesus Road
In the early 1830s, physician, scientist, and neophyte missionary Jean Louis Berlandier watched as his friend, an unnamed Kickapoo Indian, lay dying. The Kickapoo gave off a fierce appearance in his dress, paint, and bearing; he was a skilled hunter; … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged Bacone College, bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, jesus-road
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Montaigne and Christianity
Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French aristocrat, was neither saint, priest, nor monk, rather a worldly man who lived in a secular time of conflict between Protestants and Catholics. Montaigne was a landowner, a government official, and soldier. He was … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus
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God’s Shadow over American History
Jean-Pierre Caussade in Abandonment to Divine Providence writes truthfully that God is behind all historical events. If so, then it is God’s will that the United States is in 2025 exactly where He wills it to be. And further, that … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity, God's Providence
Tagged bible, Christianity, Divine Providence, faith, god, history, Jesus
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The American Plutarch 