Tag: Saints
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Saints in My Book
Some saints will never be remembered on a church calendar or written about in a book of saints. Their names may not be known beyond their families, classrooms, churches, and communities. Yet they will always be saints in my book. My parents were among my first saints. They were imperfect people, as we all are,…
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Willing Myself to Love
Godfrey Dickmann — April 7, 1908–February 22, 2002Saint for September 15, 2026Source: A Year With the American Saints, G. Scott Cady and Christopher L. Webber, Church Publishing, 2006 Godfrey Dickmann was born into a family of eight children, the son of German emigrés from Westphalia. He was baptized Leo. At eighteen, he entered the Benedictine…
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Who Am I to Judge?
Today I was reading A Year in the Life of American Saints, and the saint for the day was Bayard Rustin. I recently watched the movie Rustin, so his story was still fresh in my mind. What a remarkable man. Rustin endured rejection, prejudice, imprisonment, and condemnation, yet he devoted much of his life to…
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The Reluctant Saints: When God Calls the Unlikely
Category: Mentors Who Changed MeSeries: Who Challenges Me?The Curious Pilgrim I did not grow up studying the saints. Of course, I had heard the names of some of them. In Bible College and Seminary, I encountered people such as Augustine, Ambrose, Francis of Assisi, and others as part of Church History. But studying someone historically…
