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George Orwell is best known for his dystopian novels 1984 and Animal farm. Less well known, but equally worthwhile are his essays. As an inveterate tea drinker, I have always loved his 11-point guide on how to make a fine cup of tea.

Swiftly Pass the Clouds of Glory was composed by George Henry Day in 1940. It’s based on Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8, and Luke 9:28-36. The theme is the Transfiguration of the Lord.

It may be that William Tyndale gave more to the English Reformation than any other Reformer, for without his translation of the New Testament into the clear English of his day, so that the common man could read and understand, such great preachers as John Colet, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and others could have preached until doomsday, yet there would have remained little understanding of the Scriptures.

The theory of childhood sexuality advanced by Alfred Kinsey’s sex researchers has shaped how and when sex education is taught in the United States. It has also influenced the laws against sexual molestation.

Angels are spirits made by God. The Bible does not come out and clearly answer when angels were created, but suggests the answer in Psalm 104, Genesis 1, and Genesis 3.

“During all his life, Huss distinguished himself by constant application to duty and tireless devotion to preaching according to the Scriptures. His conduct has been termed exemplary, his life blameless, and his personality winning.

It seems to me that we are in far too great a hurry to rush people anyhow, somehow to Christ. We are so anxious to get results. But we are to be governed in our methods as well as in our message by this Word of God…

This hymn from 1850 is theologically rich and emotionally evocative without being manipulative. Pastors, please add good old worshipful hymns like these to our Sunday worship services. Let’s make the focus less on the music, less on what we’ve done and how we feel about it, and more and more on Him.

Did you ever wonder how it came to be that so many Americans know so very little about their own history? Half a century ago certain members of congress became concerned about tax-exempt foundations.

In the year of Christ 286, a most remarkable affair occurred; a legion of soldiers, consisting of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men, contained none but Christians. This legion was called the Theban Legion, because the men had been raised in Thebias: they were quartered in the east until the emperor Maximian ordered them to march to Gaul, to assist him against the rebels of Burgundy.