1546 George Wishart, a Scottish reformer, is arrested by Roman Catholic authorities, and will be burned to death as a heretic the next day by order of Cardinal David Beaton. 1638 HT: Dan Graves Scotland took seriously the religious reforms introduced in the sixteenth century by John Knox, which included church rule by elders. When…
In the latest episode of the Equipping the Saints podcast, Ramone and John are again joined by Professor Steve Taylor to discuss Dragons, Dinosaurs and DNA.
398 HT: Dan Graves John Chrysostom resisted, pleaded. The Imperial messengers were deaf to his pleas. They had their secret orders. He was coming with them whether he wished it or not. Outside Antioch they transferred him into a royal chariot and rode for Constantinople. There, in the capital of the Roman Empire he…
Yesterday we had the joy of welcoming the two Ewans to our home – Ewan (sr) and Ewan (jr) Gurr, who host and produce the Scottish Bible Podcast. This father and son team, broadcast daily readings from Scripture as they seek to read the whole Bible in this way in the year. It’s a great…
1536 HT: Dan Graves What was the surest way to make yourself unpopular in 1530? Join the Anabaptists. Protestant and Catholic alike reviled these usually peaceable, Bible-loving souls and massacred large numbers of them. One group of Anabaptists (the name, given by their enemies, means “re-baptizers”) came into being Jan 21, 1525 in Zurich when…