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Joseph Exell's 1887 commentary identifies three essential truths about Christian ministry.
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died on a thin mattress in Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China. He was forty-three years old. A brain...
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell walked across the stage at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York and received her Doctor of Medicine degree...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach took up his post as Thomaskantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. The position was grueling — he was...
In the spring of 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood before Pope Julius II in Rome and protested. He was a sculptor, not a painter. His hands...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach arrived in Leipzig, Germany, to take up his post as Thomaskantor — director of music at St. Thomas Church. He...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship onto the docks of New York City, safely an ocean away from Hitler's Germany. Friends...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel sat at his desk at 25 Brook Street in London, a man whose best years seemed...
On October 31, 1512, Pope Julius II unveiled the completed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City — over twelve thousand square feet of...
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer and his wife Hélène arrived by river steamer at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, present-day Gabon. Schweitzer was thirty-eight,...
--- The Nurses Who Refused to Stand Alone On the first of July, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick rose to address a gathering of nurses from...
On July 1, 1899, Ethel Gordon Fenwick stood before delegates at the International Congress of Women in London and proposed something unprecedented: a global alliance...
By the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the London music world had written off. His Italian operas no longer drew audiences....
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell died in the Weihsien internment camp in Shandong Province, China. He was forty-three years old. Twenty-one years earlier, the...
By 1905, Albert Schweitzer held doctorates in both theology and philosophy. His landmark work *The Quest of the Historical Jesus* was reshaping New Testament scholarship...
In the summer of 1899, nurses from Great Britain, the United States, and Germany gathered at the International Congress of Women in London with a...
For four years, from 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood on scaffolding sixty-eight feet above the floor of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, painting...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, having accepted a teaching position at Union Theological Seminary arranged by...
In late August 1741, George Frideric Handel received a libretto from Charles Jennens — a carefully assembled text drawn entirely from the King James Bible...
On February 21, 1945, Eric Liddell lay dying on a narrow cot in the Weihsien internment camp in Weifang, China. The man who had electrified...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, escaping a Germany that was tightening its grip on every conscience...
On April 16, 1913, Albert Schweitzer stepped off a river steamer onto the banks of the Ogooué River in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa. He was...
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell walked across the stage at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York and received her Doctor of Medicine degree...