From the monthly archives:

March 2009

St Columba

March 10, 2009 · 0 comments

in General,Saints

According to tradition of royal descent, Columba was born in 521 in County Donegal, Ireland. He received a monastic education at Clonard Abbey from the Irish monk, Finnian. Subsequently he went on to found a number of Irish monasteries before falling foul of Finnian and King Diarmit; both of whom disputed his right to keep [...]

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The “saintly history” of the past few posts will resume shortly. I have been debating with a former evangelical, now an atheist, on the web, and he can’t get it out of his head that I am trying to convert him. It seems to me that evangelicals far too easily forget that conversion is the [...]

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