by David Delmotte | Feb 5, 2024 | Blog
February 5, 1631: English clergyman Roger Williams arrives in America. After questioning Massachusetts’ fusion of church and state, he was banished. He bought land from native Americans and founded Rhode Island, where he established America’s first Baptist...
by David Delmotte | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog
February 2, 767: Alcuin, the academic who would later play a large role in establishing schools under Charlemagne, becomes headmaster of York Cathedral School, where he once studied. Alcuin’s curriculum was built on the seven liberal arts: the elementary Trivium...
by David Delmotte | Feb 1, 2024 | Newsletter
Teacher of Children “and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—” Romans 2:19–20 The context of...
by David Delmotte | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog
On this Day… February 1, 1850, Abraham Lincoln’s second son, Edward Baker Lincoln, died at the age of 3 after a 52-day illness. Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln had four sons, but only their eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, outlived his...
by David Delmotte | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog
On This Day… January 31, 1892, at 11:05 pm, Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s early voice was silenced, yet his witness continues. Therefore, through an appreciation of a life lived for Jesus Christ, others may be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20)...
