On This Day in History: John Bradford Sentened to Death as a Reward for His Courage
January 22, 1555 On this date, some sixteen months after his arrest on charges of sedition, John Bradford was sentenced to death. The English Reformer was caught in the cross-hairs of Mary Tudor, the Catholic Queen of England, during the severe period of religious schism. Bradford had, in 1553, been compelled to surrender his church … Read more
C. S. Lewis on How Courage Ranks among the Virtues
In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis imagines the threat that God is to the machinations of the Devil. God has created “a dangerous world,” says Uncle Screwtape. And he contemplates the reasons why: This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy’s motives for creating a dangerous world—a world in which moral issues really come … Read more
