The revisionist history people who want to deny America’s founding on Christian principles crack me up. How they can gloss-over facts is both laughable and sad. When the founders of New Haven, CT decided to have a government, they produced the Fundamental Orders of New Haven on June 4, 1639. The document, pictured here, was developed in a barn and …

The Foreign Missionary Hall of Fame (if there was one) would certainly include Hudson Taylor as one of the founding inductees. Born in England to devout Christian parents, Taylor initially rejected the faith but during his time in medical school began to see the Light. His parents had long been focused/interested in those nations that had never heard the name …

The first missionary commissioned by the Canadian Presbyterian Church was George Leslie Mackay who died of throat cancer on June 2, 1901. He spent his life in Taiwan (at that time called Formosa) and wanted to show the Chinese people how much he loved them and how much God loves them that he married a Chinese woman which was NOT …

Oberlin College rests about 35 miles from Cleveland, Ohio and boasts a strong liberal arts education and renowned music conservatory. It was named for missionary John F. Oberlin who worked with poor, remote villagers in the Alsace-Lorraine valley region of France (pictured here) and not only taught them the gospel but practical trade skills. After Oberlin died on June 1, …

Just last week we took a look at Billy Graham’s first major sermon with Youth for Christ and now we look at his legacy. The Billy Graham Library was dedicated on May 31, 2007 and there were plenty of dignitaries on hand to wish him well including three living U.S. Presidents: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. Here …

One of the most famous women in Christian history is Joan of Arc. The Hundred Years’ War between France and England was bitter and long-fought (that’s how you get the name 100 years’ worth of war!) over the control of France and this peasant girl named Joan from the Orleans district joined the fight. Convinced she was told by the …

The Protestant Reformation didn’t just start the day Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the Castle Church doors in Wittenberg, Germany on Halloween 1517. The influence of Greek thought and literature and a renewal of “critical thinking” called humanism (it has a different connotation today) increased because western Europe had access to many more Greek books and literature. One …

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan priest who created a very effective friary just outside Warsaw in 1936. When the Nazis invaded Poland three years later, Kolbe knew it was a matter of time before he would be at odds with the authorities. He ended up on May 28, 1941 being sentenced to Auschwitz and continued to make an impact …

Ten days before D-Day on May 27, 1944 the first Youth for Christ Rally began in Chicago at Orchestra Hall. The preacher that day was Youth For Christ’s first full time staff member: a Charlotte, North Carolina native named Billy Graham. Come back on May 31 for some more Billy Graham history.  

The first superstar historian of England was a monk named Bede, who became known as Venerable Bede and is the Father of English History. He wrote Bible commentaries as well but most of what is known about the history of England up to the late 700’s comes from Bede’s pen. His pupils surrounded his death bed and chanted hymns when …