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The Church in the World, Militant and Wave-Tossed: Hemmingsen on Luke 5
Yesterday’s Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 5:1-11: And it came to pass, that,…

“Condemn Not”: More from Hemmingsen on Mercy in Luke 6
Yesterday we looked at the first part of Niels Hemmingsen’s discussion of mercy in his Postil sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity on…

“Judge Not”: Niels Hemmingsen on Judgment and Mercy in Luke 6
Yesterday’s Gospel reading, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 6:36-42: 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 37 Judge not,…

“The Old Wrong”: Victimhood as the Refusal of Self-Knowledge
In Er (He), a collection of notes from 1920, Franz Kafka makes the following remark: Die Erbsünde, das alte Unrecht, das der Mensch begangen…

Is Napoleon’s most famous marshal secretly buried in a North Carolina Presbyterian churchyard?
In 1846 an obscure French schoolteacher, Peter Stewart Ney, died in Rowan County, North Carolina. He served in the various small home schoolrooms scattered…