Anskar

Several years ago I was with my family at Disney’s EPCOT park. One of the fascinating rides was Maelstrom, a ride that depicted Norway’s Viking days. Of course, the missiologist in me started thinking about Viking history apart from the grace of Christ. Then I recalled one of the first […]

Anskar, Apostle of the North

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The other day my family and I went to our local Half-Price Books where I found a copy of The Vikings by Else Roesdahl.  I have been doing some recent reading on the spread of the gospel to Scandinavia and how the gospel transformed a barbaric people, who eventually sent […]

The Christianization of the Vikings-Part 1

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