by Ray Rhodes | Dec 7, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
On Sunday morning December 23, 1860, Charles Spurgeon preached a sermon from Job 1:4-5 that he titled, “A Merry Christmas.” His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat...
by Ray Rhodes | Jun 10, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
June 10, 1854, was a day of fanfare in London with the re-opening of the Crystal Palace. The Palace, crafted from iron and glass, was the genius of the famed designer Sir Joseph Paxton and an architectural marvel. It had originally been built at London’s Hyde Park as...
by Ray Rhodes | Nov 15, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
CHRONOLOGICAL SNOBBERY Be killing chronological snobbery or chronological snobbery will be killing you. It is lazy and unloving to be dismissive of a person from the past without consideration of their context. Chronological snobbery is the belief that...
