Earthly and Heavenly Floral Symbols. Flower Symbols of Mary on Earth and in Heaven – John S. Stokes Jr. Those consecrated to Jesus through Mary seek to heighten prayerful recourse to Mary's motherly ...

The communion of persons in marriage is indeed a good fruit of our nature in this life. Since as it says in 1 John 3 that we are children of God now but what we will become in the Kingdom we as ...

The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history. At least 20 million people perished in this 14-year civil war between a peasant army led by a pseudo ...

Stephen Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom provides a compelling and often meticulous account of the aftermath: “not only the most destructive war of the 19th century, but likely the ...

Structurally, Stephen Platt's “Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom” is a thriller. The author, who received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Yale University and is an associate professor at the ...