Round the Sphere Again: Two People You Should Know

Renée of France
There’s a giveaway of Simonetta Carr’s bitesize biography of Renée of France at Out of the Ordinary. Click over to read a review written by Christina Langella, and then enter to win a copy of this little book.

George Herbert
I just finished listening to John Piper’s biographical sermon on George Herbert, “one of the greatest religious poets of all time.”

For George Herbert, the poetic effort was a form of mediation on the glories of Christ mediated through the Scriptures. Conceiving and writing poems was a way of holding a glimpse of Christ in his mind and turning it around and around until it yielded an opening into some aspect of its essence or its wonder that he had never seen before.

Piper’s biographical sketches are always good, but I’ve been a fan of Herbert’s poetry for a long time, so I liked this one especially.

You can read rather than listen, if you prefer.