Posts Tagged “Evelyn Underhill”
There’s a passage in Augustine’s Confessions that describes a holiday he took to Cassiciacum after quitting his job in Milan. On his break he wrote letters, suffered a horrendous toothache, and read the Psalms. “How loudly I cried out to you, my God, as I read the psalms of David,” he writes, “songs full of [...]
The American patriot leader Joseph Warren was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775. Coming upon his bloodied and fallen body, a British soldier plucked a copy of the 1559 Geneva Psalter from his pocket. Warren had carried the little book into battle, a volume whose pages declare that God “maketh wars [...]