Alyssa Roat studied writing, theology, and the Bible at Taylor University. She has worked as a literary agent at C.Y.L.E., the publicity manager at Mountain Brook Ink, and as a freelance editor with Sherpa Editing Services. She is the co-author of Dear Hero and has 200+ bylines in ...
Set aside time every day for intentional reflection and writing so you can assess where you’ve been and where you’re going. You could find these reflective moments of journaling actually challenge the beliefs you once felt so sure about. But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean you failed, ...
Pious: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; devotional; godly. –There were other, more conventional pious sayings up on the walls. Piquant: having an agreeably pungent taste; savory; spicy. –It is little marked upon how much skill must be exercised to produce the most pi...
Spencerian penmanship, style of handwriting developed by Platt Rogers Spencer (died 1864) of Geneva, Ohio. Energetically promoted by Spencer’s five sons and a nephew, the Spencerian method became the most widely known system of writing instruction in th
TheBacchusled at once to the commission (1498) for thePietà, now inSt. Peter’s Basilica. The name refers not (as is often presumed) to this specific work but to a common traditional type of devotional image, this work being today the most famous example.Extractedfrom narrative scenes of...
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte Yonge He breaks out, indeed, into a burst of devotional praise—Gloria Patri—as if for some special and never-to-be-forgotten mercy. Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams Gloria, you are nice, and sweet, but your money would only be a...
The Apostle Paul played a significant part in not only establishing the early Church but also writing much of the New Testament. Once a killer of Christians, Paul's conversion story to become a follower of Christ is truly fascinating. Throughout his writing, you can clearly see his ...
“the work of my entire life,” thedesert-set novelThe Temptation of Saint Anthony(1874). Writing in that same era,Gerard Manley Hopkins, a BritishJesuitpriest, crafted syntactically complex and deeply devotional poems. Decades after Hopkins’s death in 1889, his work influenced 20th-century ...
Book of HoursTwo-page spread from Geoffroy Tory'sBook of Hours(1531). It has often been assumed that the printing process ended the manuscript tradition. This is not quite true: for example, most of the survivingbooks of hours(lavish private devotional manuscript books) date from the period ...
In the Edgerton Bible case in 1890 the Wisconsin Supreme Court outlawed devotional Bible reading in Wisconsin public schools. In Everson v. Board of Education (1947) the U.S. Supreme Court found that the local school board’s reimbursements to parents for the cost of transporting their children...