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On This Day…
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...
February 2024 Epistola
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...
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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 parents.
On This Day…
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)
January 2024 Epistola
Built To Last 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise...