1886 HT: Dan Graves On this day Monday morning, May 10, 1886, at about five o’clock Anna Katherina Sartorius Barth delivered a son. It was a hard delivery, and the child was ugly. “Karli,” as his parents affectionately called him, was born at home–42 Grellingerstrasse in Basle, with just an aunt attending. Although both parents were born and raised in Basle, they…
The Church of Scotland is on the “cusp of a transformation and revival” according to Rev David Cameron, convener of the General Assembly Trustees. Of all the nonsense coming out of the CofS in recent months and years, this statement has to be the most far-fetched and irrational. The CofS is better at spinning facts…
After a gap of a few months, here’s my recent interview with Pastor / Evangelist John MacKinnon
1910 HT: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Alexander Maclaren was born in Glasgow on February 11, 1826, and died in Manchester on May 5, 1910. He had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived more than almost any of the great preachers of his time between his study, his…