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“The Battered Brood of Baby Boys”: A Fifth-Century Hymn (4)
We’re back this week with three more verses from Sedulius’s A solis ortus cardine (K, L, M). The timing works out well, because the…

A Little Coleridge
“In every state, not wholly barbarous, a philosophy, good or bad, there must be. However slightingly it may be the fashion to talk of…

A Nineteenth Century Anglican Christmas in Egypt.
Edmund Winder mounted the steps of his modest pulpit on Christmas Day, 1854. Christmas Day fell on Monday but the congregation gathered anyway. A…

Bucer to Bullinger (3): On the Holy Supper
We continue with selections from a 1535 letter from Martin Bucer to Heinrich Bullinger. The topic is still the Lord’s Supper. I’ve included the…

“Incensed Conversely”: A Fifth-Century Hymn (3)
This week for “Melanchthon Monday,” we once again…aren’t getting Melanchthon. Instead, here are the next three stanzas (G, H, I) of Sedulius’s hymn A…