1555 HT: Dan Graves John Rogers was burned to death at the stake at Smithfield, England, on this Monday morning, February 4, 1555. Among the onlookers who encouraged him were his own children. Who was John Rogers, and what monstrous crime had earned him this cruel death? Who was John Rogers? Born about 1500, Rogers was…
1915 HT: Dan Graves NINE-YEAR-OLD PAUL RADER was under conviction of sin. On this night he knelt at the altar wanting to get saved. An elder said “Why, Paul, you love the Savior, don’t you?” When Rader answered “yes,” he was assured he was all right. But Rader knew he wasn’t. He went home and…
Handing on the baton… The key moment in any relay race is the handing on of the baton from one runner to another. With that in view, the Board of Edinburgh Bible College are very pleased to announce the appointment of Ramone McKenzie to succeed the current principal John Brand as he stands down. For the past…
1977 HT: Dan Graves THE CHURCH IN UGANDA was born in suffering. After Christianity gained a foothold in Buganda in the nineteenth century, King Mwanga II martyred forty-five Catholic and Anglican converts. Some of them died for refusing the king’s homosexual advances. He also had British missionary James Hannington killed on the eastern border of…
1499 HT: Dan Graves Katherine von Bora viewed herself as a prisoner in the cloister of Marienthron. Luther’s Reformation preaching had found its way behind the convent walls and she wanted out. It wasn’t as if she had chosen this secluded life for herself. Far from it. Her dad had brought her here when she…