Enter Joan of Arc
Perhaps one of the best-known agents of change in the way Christian Europe understood itself was Joan of Arc.
Why stand around, looking at the sky?
I was privileged to spend my first two summers after college performing at the Sterling Renaissance Festival.
But why is she considered a saint?
Koñwatsi’tsiaiéñni or Mary or Molly Brant was, arguably, the single most influential advocate among the Mohawk Nation for keeping her people aligned with the British Empire.
That They All May Be One
A high school friend tells the story of the first time his father, an East Texas boy, visited his mother’s family in the Bronx.
Necks of Iron, Foreheads of Bronze
“I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.” —Isaiah 48:4
Recognizing the Anonymous Righteous Among Us
According to Hasidic Jewish tradition, there are thirty-six Tzadikim Nistarim, or “anonymous righteous ones,” in the world at any given time.
The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” —Frederick Douglass
Finally seeing the goodness of the Lord
Every first-born male belongs to God, according to Exodus 13, and any family that wished to keep its first-born son instead of offering him up for religious service had to redeem him with a sacrifice in the Temple on the fortieth day after his birth.