Earlier I mentioned this book, Far from Rome, Near to God – a book that gives the testimonies of fifty Roman Catholic priests who left Rome after they were converted to the Christian faith. I recently read one account that is worth sharing here. It is a story in the life of one priest who had …
Prester John, Ferdinand Magellan, and Superstition
In the early part of the 12th century, some European monks wrote an imaginative and allegorical account of the faith (sort of like a medieval Pilgrim's Progress). The fictious account was about a Christian man named Prester John ("Prester" is an ancient way to say "presbyter" or "priest") who ruled over a vast golden earthly …
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