Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Life in Richmond under siege

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The American diarist Emma Mordecai died 120 years ago today, leaving behind a rare and detailed civilian record of life in the Confederate c...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

William Godwin’s diary

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The English writer and philosopher William Godwin, an early proponent of idealistic liberalism, died 190 years ago today. He is, perhaps, be...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

A disappointed man

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William Bagshaw Stevens, born 270 years go today, died laughing. But, in his relatively short life, he had been an ineffective headmaster of...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

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Today marks the 190th anniversary of the birth of Ramakrishna, the Bengali temple priest and religious teacher whose influence on modern Hin...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The bishop in Buganda

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James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, was shot dead 140 years ago today, with his own rifle, executed - along with 50 or so...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Do what thou wilt

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‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law [. . .] I am aflame with the brandy of the thought that I am the sublimest Mystic in all hi...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

State-created crime

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One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

William Derham - natural philosopher

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William Derham, an English clergyman and natural philosopher, died 230 years ago today. He was best known for his works on natural theology ...