Fundamentally Reformed – Musings of a Former Fundamentalist (IFB) Renewed by Reformed Theology
Stephen Davis | Pastor and Professor
A brief review of Frederick Douglass : Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight cannot do justice to Douglass’s multi-layered life and his impact in the nineteenth century. Douglass was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shores as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1818–1895), the son of Harriet Bailey and perhaps also the son of his mother’s white owner (9). A runaway slave at the age of twenty, his freedom was later bought by English friends. He rose in stature in the pre-Civil War abolitionist movem
In 2017 my wife and I visited the Tower of Constance in Aigues Mortes in the south of France. It was a sobering experience to ponder the suffering of Huguenot women who had been imprisoned there, some for decades. Perhaps Marie-Durand is the most well-known. In her tower prison there is an inscription engraved in stone— “REGISTEZ” (resist in French regional dialect). It is not known if Marie wrote this. In any case, she remains a symbol of steadfast faith and resistance against State repression and religiou
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Fundamentally Reformed – Musings of a Former Fundamentalist (IFB) Renewed by Reformed Theology
Stephen Davis | Pastor and Professor