The complete online text of Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

00-00-0000 BAGHDAD, Fri. - In the absence of television, radio, newspapers, telephones and the Internet, the Friday sermon has become one of the most important sources of information during the current occupation of Iraq by the United States and its allies. Thousands of...

Kevin Thompson, 38, from Fife, almost yawns as he recalls the "boring" church services which dominated the Sundays of his youth. "I was brought up in Northern Ireland and went to the Presbyterian church," said the North Sea oil worker, who has never...