Dr. David Allen has an inspiring piece on Anglican preacher, poet, and Dean of London's St. Paul’s Church during the 17th Century, John Donne. Allen writes >>>
Donne’s life was pockmarked with pain. When Donne was 4 years old, his father died suddenly, leaving him and two other siblings to be raised by his mother. At the age of 11, he entered Oxford where he studied for three years. He spent the next three years at Cambridge, but formally graduated from neither as he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy. In 1593, Donne’s younger brother Henry died of a fever in prison after being arrested for giving sanctuary to a Catholic priest. Donne secretly married the daughter of Sir George More in 1601, an unpopular move that landed him in jail! In 1606 he and his wife lived in a small house which he is reported to have referred to as a “hospital” and a “prison.” But for all this, he later became Royal Chaplain and often preached in the King’s court...
Check out the entire piece entitled "Nailed to a Bed of Pain: Lessons on Life and Death from John Donne" at Theological Matters, the blog of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.
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