While in Oxford...

I've always had a bit of a love of church history, particularly reformation history. There's something so enriching and powerful about hearing the stories of people who have blazed the trail before us. When preparing to come to England, I remember sitting at my parents' table last April, while visiting them, and googling Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, two martyrs during the English reformation. Hugh Latimer is famously quoted as saying to Ridley, while they were being burned to death, "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." Two weeks ago, I walked out of a shop in Oxford, while family was visiting. They were standing in the middle of the road, where it was a square area of bricks and not pavement. And there was an engravement by the site saying that it was where Latimer and Ridley were burned to death in 1555 for wanting to have the Bible translated into English. And now I get to be a very small part of carrying on the candle here in England partly by handing out English Bibles. What a crazy thought...