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November 17, 2011
in European History, History, Religion

Eminent Biography: John Edwards on Mary I

November 17, 2011
in European History, History, Religion

On November 17, 1558, Queen Mary I of England died in the midst of her restoration of Catholicism. The glorious reign of her succeeding half-sister Elizabeth and the permanent installation of Protestantism as the religion of the Church of England has left this first reigning English queen with a certain

April 13, 2006
in American History, Current Affairs, History, Religion

In Memoriam: William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

April 13, 2006
in American History, Current Affairs, History, Religion

“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.” – William Sloane Coffin, Jr. The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., a magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, and the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, died yesterday