‘Be still and know … I am God’
The lifestyle of the Gethsemane monks was outwardly simplistic, in what they wore, what they ate, how they lived and how they worshipped God.
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Chaplain Charles Joseph Watters (1927-1967)
Military chaplains are deployed to serve our men and women in uniform during peacetime and during wartime. They are subjected to the same dangers as all other in the units.
The Black-Robed regiment
The clergy of America during the American Revolutionary War (1776-1781) were patriotic, courageous and boldly proclaimed the Word of God.
Harriet Tubman: Faith and courage
Harriet Tubman (1821-1931) was a former slave in Maryland who risked her life to free over 300 Southern slaves during America's darkest years, the slavery years.
Anne Frank (1929-1945): A life that inspired millions
Born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, into a respected Jewish family, Anne Frank and her family would later experience the deprivation and suffering of the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler's inhuman treatment of millions of European Jews.
Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959): The People’s Poet
Do you enjoy clean and "down-to-earth" poetry? If yes is your answer, as it is mine, you should enjoy the poems (more than 15,000 of them) by the late Edgar A. Guest, the former and only poet laureate of Michigan.
One solitary life: An anonymous essay
Here is a man who was born of Jewish parents in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.
Samuel Francis Smith: My country tis of Thee
Samuel Francis Smith was born in Newton, Mass., and educated at Boston Latin School, 1820-1825. He graduated from Harvard in 1829, and then entered Andover Theological Seminary to study for the Christian ministry.
James Buchanan (1791-1868): America’s only bachelor president
It helps to know about the faith of former American leaders such as the faith of our 15th president, James Buchanan.