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...
WITH NO CONVENT but the CITY ITSELF, ONE WOMAN FINDS a PRAYERFUL SOLITUDE as a CONTEMPLATIVE ORDER of ONE. MARTHA AINSWORTH rides a bus into Port Authority from New Jersey at least three times a week, twice for work and once on Sunday...
IN FEBRUARY 1965 a refrigerator was delivered to Thomas Merton's hermitage. It bothered him: after all, he had spent many years hoping that his monastic superiors would allow him to live alone, and it did not seem right that a hermit should use a...
SEOUL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - South Korea's new president could ditch the ministry that has long handled relations with North Korea, heralding what may be a major shift in the way Seoul deals with its prickly neighbour, aides were quoted as saying. The Unification...
SEOUL, Jan 16 (Reuters) - North Korea made an oblique attack on South Korea's newly elected leader on Wednesday, but its official media stuck to a policy of not actually naming the man who has pledged to be tougher on his communist neighbour. Conservative...
