Tag Archives: Church History

Where Do We Go From Here?

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   The sneaky thing about history is that it’s always happening. It may feel entirely safe to curl up in… Read more »

Surviving Communism

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   If heaven is a place where we will finally have a chance to hear all the stories of what… Read more »

A Transformed Awareness of Women

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   It remains the most-watched match in tennis history. From one perspective, it didn’t really matter. It was just an… Read more »

The Second Vatican Council

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   What a difference a century makes. In 1869, a pope called a special council in order to steer the… Read more »

The Scopes Trial

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   It should have been an open-and-shut case. Did a 24-year-old phys ed teacher named John T. Scopes teach evolution… Read more »

A Whole New World

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   The best trivia questions are ones in which you don’t see the answer coming. For instance, which states lie… Read more »

Revival in America

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   Tent meetings. The sinner’s prayer. “Just As I Am.” The altar call. All-night prayer sessions. So many aspects of… Read more »

Serving the Least, the Last, and the Lost

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   By all accounts, William Wilberforce wasn’t much to look at. He had been a small, sickly child, and lacked… Read more »

Going Global

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   “If God wants to save the heathen, he will do so, without your help or mine.” Those were the… Read more »

The French Revolution

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   It was an astonishing sacrilege. On November 10, 1793, the most famous church in France, the Cathedral of Notre… Read more »