English History Blog Posts

A Quiet Life Some lives crackle with adventure—great answers to prayers, narrow escapes, dramatic conversions, broad travel. But Christians with quieter lives often cast longer shadows. The life of Venerable Bede was so uneventful that little can b...

Christians should respect those in authority, pray for our leaders, and be lights in the world. Seems simple enough.

What a difficult life. She was the twenty-fifth child in a Dissenter’s family. Though brilliant, she procured little education. Though strong-willed, she lived in a male-dominated age. She married an older man and bore him 19 children. Nine of them...

Some lives crackle with adventure—great answers to prayers, narrow escapes, dramatic conversions, broad travel. But Christians with quieter lives often cast longer shadows.

Christians should respect those in authority, pray for our leaders, and be lights in the world. Seems simple enough.

Hope everybody had had a great Halloween. The spookiness just won’t disappear just because Halloween is over now. November is a foggy month, a month where you see superstition raising and crawling from every corner. But that will be another story.

Costumes Some of these Halloween costumes just scare me. When my son was younger, about 5 years of age until 9 years of age, we used to live in a little settlement in Berlin. 78 houses – so it was kind of a little village in the huge city. Soonish...

Superstitious Times Halloween is a spooky time of the year. The air is filled with superstition. The reason for all these superstition is the belief of the ancient Celts. You remember: the veil between our world and the Otherworld is thin. So spirits...

It started with a turnip As we have seen: one origin of Halloween is Samhain, the feast of the Celts and also Gaelic People. The Celts and the Gaels used to live on the British Islands, especially in Scotland and in Ireland. Traditionally they carved...

Church and Samhain The church, which means in this case the Catholic Church, since every thing happened in pre-protestantic times did a good marketing job after establishing themselves. Usually they took the feast of the pagans and covered it with a...

Origin Halloween has several origins. One is the Roman feast “Pomona”. Pomona was the Roman Goddess of fruits and seeds. So this is a kind of harvest origin. As a Goddess Pomona represented autumn. Another origin is the Roman feast of the dead wh...