Sublime

I found my new department located in another abandoned temple – this time much older than Alfred Mond’s shrine to the Imperial Chemical Industries. The Old Admiralty had been purpose-built as the headquarters of the British Navy in 1703. Its courtyard walls were topped with leaping dolphins, the ceilings decorated with plaster anchors, and the inte

While Shackleton was called the ‘Boss’ by his men, he did not differentiate himself from them, and in an attempt to help his crew get over the trauma of abandoning the Endurance, Shackleton literally served his men. Rising early in the morning, he made hot milk and hand-delivered it to every tent in the camp. His mantra of unity and show of humanit

As one of the people, Beecher could more clearly claim God’s love. God, Beecher could say as a regular bloke, wants us to feel loved, to be happy and not miserable. Instead of having us cough up blood as we climb the hill of holiness, this God wants to be our friend—just as your pastor does.

He’d lost perhaps half an inch in height, and gained perhaps an inch in breadth; but generally speaking the years had glanced off him without damage, and he was as unaltered as Bethesda’s pews.

Who would dare to suggest without a trustworthy record that England’s seventh Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore—a contemporary of Oswald—would be a Greek from Asia Minor, plucked from his studies in Rome at the age of sixty-seven and sent to England without knowing anything of the language or culture of the English; that he would set the essential

Sir Christopher Clitherow

Now they told David, “The Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.” 2David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” The LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” 3But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Ke