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A Christmastide meditation on Christina Rossetti’s “In the bleak mid-winter”

Christina Rossetti, the finest poetess of the Victorian era, was born into a remarkably gifted family in London, on December 5, 1830. Her parents, Gabriele and Frances Rossetti, were emigrés from Italy. When they came to England, they began attending All Souls, Langham Place, where Christina was baptized shortly after her birth. Though the family was gifted artistically, they had little money and seem to have struggled financially, despite the fact that her father was a Professor of Italian at King’s College, London. It was from her mother that she imbibed her evangelical faith. In 1848 Christina became engaged to...

Michael A. G. Haykin

Leaning into Evangelical Re-enchantment

Phil Cotnoir

There’s a lot of talk about re-enchantment in some circles. But what is this term trying to describe? Simply put, it’s the feeling and experience that the spell of secularism is breaking and that its hold on our culture is slipping. A Story Here’s how I might tell it as a story. The world lay cold and grey under a thick fog of atheistic materialism. Everything had a natural cause, our brains were just computers, our societies akin to glorified chimpanzee families, and all religious beliefs no more than comforting group superstitions. The big questions had been answered and all...

10 Things You Should Know About Ramadan

Angie Velasquez Thornton

This year, April 9 marks the end of the month-long fast sacred to Muslims around the world. Growing up in Southern California, I had little exposure to Islam in general, and to Ramadan in particular. During our ten years in Senegal, however, I learned a great deal about Ramadan thanks to my Muslim friends. And just as Paul sought to connect with his hearers as he proclaimed the message of eternal life at the Aeropagus in Acts 17, so we can seek to understand our Muslim friends, in the hopes of then being able to share our faith with them....

Phillis Wheatley: The Senegambian Slave-Turned-Poet

Angie Velasquez Thornton

Phillis Wheatley was captured and shipped across the Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean at age 7. The Senegambian young girl was purchased at a Boston auction in 1761 by John Wheatley for his wife Susanna. Her birth name is unknown to us, as the little girl was given the name of the slave vessel that tore her away from everything she’d ever known. A Genius in Bondage Phillis soon demonstrated such a capacity for languages that she could read fluent English by age 9. What’s more, she read and translated Greek and Latin classics by age 10. As a...

Who is Irenaeus of Lyons?

James R. Payton, Jr.

In the 180s AD, Irenaeus of Lyons established himself as the greatest theologian since the time of the apostles when he wrote A Refutation and Subversion of What is Falsely Called Knowledge—more commonly known as Against Heresies [AH] (the shortened title given the work by the church historian Eusebius)—and Presentation of the Apostolic Preaching. These took strikingly different approaches: AH offered a painstaking analysis and criticism of various heretical perspectives, while Apostolic Preaching presented an extended summary of what Christians believe and teach. Both works presented the Christian faith winsomely, as the message proclaimed by Jesus Christ and his apostles...

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