1846 HT: Christian History Institute ONE DAY AROUND 1890, the inmates of a workhouse in Wakefield, England, crowded to windows in anticipation. Their bishop was coming to speak to them! Like people who line a street to view a parade, they were excited. They expected at the very least a magnificent coach with a team…
Paul James-Griffiths is an Adjunct Lecturer at EBC, and his latest book is due to be published by Christian Focus in the new year. Our Principal, John Brand, was asked to write a commendation for it, and said, “Having had a hunch for a long time that Scotland was, as they say, punching well above…
1903 HT: Dan Graves Fourteen year old Sundar Singh blamed the Christian God for the death of his mother. He threw filth on his Christian teachers, mocked their Scriptures, and interrupted classes. Then he made an ultimate gesture of scorn. He built a fire and page by page tore up a Bible and burned it.…
There are two blessings, among many, that I get out of doing these interviews. One is that in some cases I get to touch base with brothers I haven’t had meaningful contact with for many years. The second is to learn from some men who have laboured faithfully in the trenches of ministry over many…
1553 HT: Dan Graves When Queen Mary Tudor came to the English throne in 1553, everyone expected she would restore the Roman Church to a nation which had become Protestant. Fearing brutality, some clergymen fled. One who stayed in England was John Philpot, archdeacon of Winchester. Assured that he could speak freely, he debated Roman…
1836 HT: Dan Graves JOHN RIPPON was an extraordinary faith-filled young man. In 1771, when he was just twenty, Carter Lane Baptist Church, Tooley Street, London, invited him to try out for their pulpit. Rippon had been a Christian just four years. He trembled at the offer because famed theologian John Gill had been the…