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Monday, April 8, 2024
"Magna Carta" by Nicholas Vincent
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If there is a document that is the fount of constitutionalism, it is the Magna Carta , or Great Charter, signed by King John of England and...
Monday, September 30, 2019
“Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace” by Amanda Foreman and Lucy Peter
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Two weeks after becoming queen, the 18-year-old Victoria moved the household from Kensington Palace to Buckingham Palace. The new home ...
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Saturday Good Reads
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What’s old is new again. In the days of the Roman Empire, Christianity was forbidden and periodically persecuted for a variety of reason...
Monday, September 10, 2018
“Glass Island” by Gareth Griffith
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While it’s not as common as it once was, the use of the term “Dark Ages” had some justification behind it. The period from the fall of ...
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Saturday Good Reads
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Some 10 years ago, I attended a training seminar for elders and deacons at church that featured a well-known pastor from Nashville. The...
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