Marcus K. Paul
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Synopsis
Born in 1846 in Ireland at the start of the “Great Hunger,” James Kinnier Wilson emigrated to Philadelphia to start a new life at seventeen years old.
After his life took a dramatic turn, he found himself attending Princeton and then a college in Scotland, where he met Agnes Hately, the talented daughter of a famous figure in the Scottish “Disruption”-the emergence of the Free Church of Scotland.
Agnes and James, now newlyweds, crossed the dangerous Atlantic and settled in rural New Jersey. While there, Agnes wrote intimate letters home about her children, the people around her, the church, and the dangers of endemic disease.
Published
3rd December 2019
Publisher
Ambassador International
Format
Paperback 260 pages
ISBN
9781620209592
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Synopsis
At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being commited globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history. Were the crusades entirely inexcusable religious wars? Was the Inquisition the bloody and sadistic "Black Legend" of popular imagination? How can we understand the goodness of God after two brutalising world wars? In a refreshingly frank treatment of the Church's past failings, this book fills a gap in our understanding of what it is to be Christian in the twenty-first century.
Published
1st March 2016
Publisher
Sacristy Press, Durham
Format
Paperback 266 pages
ISBN
978-1-908381-95-8
Bio
Marcus Paul has two degrees in English and history and has enjoyed a life-long career working with students and sixth formers in universities and schools in three continents. He now spends his time writing and speaking about issues of faith and contemporary society, as well as painting and reading. He also enjoys rock climbing and travel - having had (as a young man) the now nearly impossible experience of hitch-hiking ‘on a shoestring’ ten thousand miles around Africa and the Near East.
Reviews of my latest publication
Current News & Events
January 2020
The launch of my book on nineteenth century emigration: Ireland to the Wild West. This traces the lives of two adventurers who went "to the land of the free" to experience both joy and tragedy in the very year Wyatt Earp was taming Dodge City. They witnessed the impact of the Last Indian Raid in Kansas in 1878 and the birth of a frontier town...
Speaking Engagements
7th February 2020
24th February 2020
16th November 2021
29th November 2021
8th December 2021
2nd February 2022
8th March 2022
Watch this space, more to follow...
Reviews of The Evil That Men Do
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