Vanishing Youth
Petrarch is known as the father of Humanism and ushered in the era of the Italian Renaissance. This passage is from Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity. It kin...
Petrarch is known as the father of Humanism and ushered in the era of the Italian Renaissance. This passage is from Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity. It kin...
I read my first medieval Arthurian romance. This one is by Chrétien de Troyes called The Knight of the Cart. It’s a poem (although, the translation I read...
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But, while joined by many...
All of us know that Hitler’s Nazi Germany was called the Third Reich. But what were the first two Reichs? I was unclear about this, so I looked it up: The...
The Word of the day this year is Nimbus. According to Merriam-Websters, the indisputable crown of English language reference, the word nimbus means the followin...
The first time I heard the last name Snowden is not on the news, concerning the plight of Traitor/American Hero Edward Snowden. It may have not been the first y...
The institution of Christianity may well owe its existence to Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28th, 312 A....
I have a rather long commute to work. Forty-five minutes to work, and forty-five minutes back home. An hour and a half in sum. That’s a lot of time to ...
[post_intro]“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”[/post_intro] A lonely Sunday evening in McPherson, KS. I didn’t feel much like p...