Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

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Despite how it sounds, “trotz” is a German genitive preposition that searches for an object in the genitive showing possession.  Or so I am told.  It means “despite” or “in spite of”.  I am...

‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil’ (Psalm 23), could be a caption for this engraving. The horseman is the ‘knight of Christ’, a phrase that Dürer was to use of his...

‘Forlorn hope’ now just means ‘lost hope’. That’s not how it was in the 16th century, when a forlorn hope wasn’t a bad feeling about the world but a robust band of fighters.  They would...

I haven’t thought about George Orwell for a long time.  Most people don’t think of Orwell at all unless they think of “Animal Farm”.  Not “Animal House”, “Animal Farm”.  Orwell...