Nineteenth-century England experienced a significant period of transition with cultural influences, reflected by Enlightenment thinking, shifting to include romantic tendencies. One of the growing evangelical

Sometimes obscured by the reputation of her mentor Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Clare was an innovator and hero of the faith in her own

Background What we know of Nympha as a person springs primarily from two small verses written by Paul about AD 58 to 60: “Give my

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Even if the New Testament identified by name many men and no women as local church officers—in particular, elders, overseers, or pastors—this would not logically