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Holy Roman Emperor, Batman! A great opportunity to get on board with Christian History magazine

Posted on February 10, 2014 | 3 comments

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Friends, if you haven’t yet pulled the trigger on a free-with-encouragement-to-donate subscription to Christian History Magazine, now’s the time! Trust me, this upcoming Charlemagne/Christendom issue is both fascinating and gorgeous. Man, am I proud of the jobJennifer Woodruff Tait, Edwin Woodruff Tait, Dawn Myers-Moore, Jennifer Trafton Peterson, Meg Goddard Moss, and the rest of the Christian History team have done on this one. Sign up right away and you’ll soon be getting this in the mail.

Here’s the link with the skinny.

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Monks too heavenly minded to be any earthly good? Hardly. Meet the globe-trotting, pagan-busting Boniface

Posted on January 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

So you think medieval monks just sat in their cloisters, doing without stuff and looking pious? Check out Boniface (680 – 754):

The Pagan-Buster
How a brilliant monk laid the groundwork for Christian Europe
By Chris Armstrong

“Irony” seems a concept invented for such a situation as this: The man historian Christopher Dawson once called the most influential Englishman who ever lived is the patron saint of … Germany.

And, as journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto has recently reminded us, the 60th anniversary of D-Day is also the 1250th anniversary of this man’s death.

There is one more layer of seeming irony in this story of the man who evangelized Germany and set the stage for Western Christendom: he was a monk. Continue reading →

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