Do Eight-Hundred-Year-Old Documents Still Matter?

   One of our social media posts and 250 Seconds highlighted the incredible historic parallels between the Barons revolt against King John in 1215 which resulted in the Magna Carta and the rebellion against King George III in 1776 which culminated in the Declaration...

Coincidence or Divine Providence? You Decide

      If you were to type “probabilities of coincidences” in your search engine on your computer and sift through more than twenty pages of links to stories about “coincidences,” you won’t find a quick and clear definition.  The subject lines included titles such as...

 Confusion About When, But Not Why – Memorial Day

Would it surprise you to know the origin of one of our most sacred national holidays is uncertain, including its birthplace and founder? For more than one hundred fifty years, Americans have set aside a day to remember our country’s fallen, those men and women who...

To Pray or Not to Pray: That Was the Question

        In early September 1774, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to consider a collective response to the British government’s coercive actions. A little more than a year and a half later, the Second Continental Congress would declare independence...

Past is Prologue: 1215 – 1776

    The story is familiar to anyone who has studied history at even its most elementary level.  Its heroes and villains, struggles, strife, and victory over oppression are the stuff of which legends have been made, as well as innumerable books, films, artistic works...

“Old Glory:” Driven on Winds of War

In 1803, a young man ran away from his home in Salem, Massachusetts. He was only thirteen, but even at that young age the sea called to him as the mythical Sirens had lured the ancient mariners. Like other young men of his age, his life as a sailor began as a cabin...