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Juniper Berthiaume (1744-?) French Missionary to the Penobscot Tribe
Pope Francis said on his Apostolic Journey to Canada in July 2022, “I have been waiting to come here and be with you! Here, from this place associated with painful memories, I would like to begin what I consider a … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged Canada, Christianity, Great Commission, history, Jesus, missionary, Penobscot, Religion
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Missionary John Thayer
John Thayer (1755-1815) was a New England convert, educated at Yale where he was taught that all things Roman Catholic were despicable. Then he went to Europe and underwent a conversion—a most unexpected religious change. He wrote a book about … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged bible, Christianity, church-history, Great Commission, history, missionary, Religion
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Junipero Serra: Work and Prayer
Franciscan Junipero Serra (1713-1784), one of the founders of Catholicism in California, should he miraculously walk the paths of California today (on tired, sore, bare feet, for he believed in the practice of mortification), he would be astonished at the … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Christianity, God's Providence, Great Commission
Tagged california, Christianity, faith, history, missionary, saints, travel
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Louis Hennepin (1626-1704), Missionary of Hope
When a person thinks back to the colonial American past imagining what the first Catholic missionaries who braved the elements, journeyed into the forests, and canoed down American rivers, must have been like, they are thinking of such a person … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, Christianity, God's Providence, Great Commission
Tagged history, louisiana, missionary, Religion, saints, travel
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Van Sorrels, the Woodcutting Musician
As the woodcutter sawed and chopped and hewed oak, hickory, maple, and pine, he sang songs to the past, to the land, and to the Lord. His name was Van. He was a simple man. He could read and write … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography
Tagged arkansas-history, fiddlers, genealogy, history, rural-arkansas, wood-hewers
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The Mirror of the Past is found in Books
The mirror of the past is the only way to peer at the image of what is human. The reflection is darkened by time and sin. Specters of the dead, haunting the dusty stacks of long-ago thoughts, turn up repeatedly, … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, Review of books written by Russell Lawson
Tagged bible, books, history, philosophy, Plutarch
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Review of The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England
The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture, (The Nautilus VII (Spring 2016): 115-118: nautilus.maritime.edu/) published a review of my book: The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England (University of New England Press, 2015): the review, reproduced by permission, follows: … Continue reading
The Largent and Amos Families of the American South
When in 1911 Claude Christopher Largent and Bessie Lura Amos were married, they brought to their union centuries of ancestral history that spanned the American South and Southeast, as well as early modern England and France. They descended from families … Continue reading
Posted in Biography
Tagged Amos Family, family-history, genealogy, history, History of the South, Largent Family
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Science in the Ancient World: From Antiquity through the Middle Ages
Ancient science was the intellectual pursuit to understand the origins and workings of nature and humanity. Science is a term that encompasses many methods and varied disciplines over time. Science has engaged human thought for millennia. The questions that … Continue reading
Posted in books, European history, History of Science
Tagged history, philosophy, Science
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The Lawsons of the American Southern Hill Country
The search for the self can take many paths. I especially like the path of the past. Past lives open up so many avenues for exploration of self. I love to engage in a dialogue with past individuals: the way … Continue reading
