"The Lord will raise a standard up and lead His people on."
- King Alfred the Great

Christian Heroes

Against the World: The Legacy of Saint Athanasius
February 8th by Robin Phillips 0 Comments
The life of Saint Athanasius’ life stands out as one of the most remarkable in the entire history of the church. Rejecting the life of ease that would later come to characterize so many bishops, Athanasius wa...
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The Wisdom of Edmund Burke
January 28th by Robin Phillips 1 Comment
The Anglo-Irish statesmen, Edmund Burke, is best known for his stinging critique of the French Revolution. Realizing that ideas have consequences, Burke endeavored to help the citizens of England and France to ...
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The Standard of Alfred the Great
January 16th by Robin Phillips 0 Comments
Since the 790s, the Danish Vikings had been using fast mobile armies to raid England’s coasts in search of plunder. Destroying and utterly decimating everything that stood in their way, the Vikings became the...
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The Legacy of Thomas Chalmers
August 17th by Robin Phillips Comments Off
Thomas Chalmers was born on 17 March 1780, the sixth child of John and Elizabeth Chalmers, in a small fishing and trading village on the south-east coast of Fife Scotland....
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Living a Life of Costly Grace: The Courage of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
July 22nd by Robin Phillips Comments Off

On 4 February, 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany (now part of Poland). Dietrich and his twin sister, Sabina, were two of eight children born to Karl and Paul...

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The Wisdom of Solzhenitsyn
July 19th by Robin Phillips Comments Off
This article explores the significance and legacy of Solzhenitsyn and the rejected warnings that he offered to the West. Recognized as a great writer, defender of freedom and opponent of communism, Solzhenitsyn...
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Run Towards the Roar: the courage of Boniface
July 19th by Robin Phillips Comments Off
Protestants often view the medieval period as a gaping parenthesis between the purity of the early church and the clarity of the reformation. Such a view is clearly erroneous, as the middle ages was a time when...
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