Month: July 2016

On this date in 1674, Isaac Watts was born. Watts changed the way the English church worshiped. Before he came along, Protestant churches in England and Scotland  would only sing hymns that were rhymed translations from the book of Psalms. Which isn’t a bad practice, unless, of course, you want to talk about Jesus, the…

On this date in 1939, after just a month in America where he was to lecture, Dietrich Bonhoeffer went back home to Germany.  Writing to Reinhold Niebuhr, he explained his decision:  I have made a mistake in coming to America. I must live through this difficult period of our national history with the Christian people…