One of the greatest Christian apologists was an Anglican scholar named William Paley who died on May 25, 1805. Paley argued against the deists of his day that divine revelation for the existence of God and nature were as valid an argument as “logic and reason.” His book A View of the Evidences of Christianity was required reading for all …
Samuel B. Morse was far more accomplished than inventing Morse Code and the telegraph. A renowned artist, he kept a studio in Charleston, SC and ran for mayor of New York. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent the first telegraph message from the old Supreme Court chamber in Washington, DC to the B&O Railroad station in Baltimore. The first message …
Holland became a solid Protestant stronghold in the 1500’s and it became more and more resentful of being ruled by Catholic Spain and overshadowed by Catholic France. So what to do other than go to war to gain some independence? On May 23,1568 the Dutch rebels defeated the Spanish in the first battle of the Eighty Years War for their …
The first “Christian Roman Emperor” was Constantine (who called the Council of Nicea together on May 20) and made it legal to practice Christianity in the Roman empire. There are very scholarly differences on whether he was truly a Christian but he certainly did things that helped Christianity spread. His conversion experience occurred when he was in a battle at …
Most Christians understand there is a difference in professing to call Jesus your Savior and truly knowing you are saved. Charles Wesley was no different. Having a father who was a minister and a brother that founded the Methodist Church, Charles felt he was “supposed to” be more Christian than he felt. During a severe bout with pleurisy he was …
The first great meeting of the entire Christian world began on May 20, 325 at what became known as the Council of Nicea. Emperor Constantine called the meeting to settle the Arian controversy which centered around the question if Jesus Christ truly was the Son of God.
The significance of King Henry VIII’s love affair with Anne Boleyn and it’s effect on the Protestant Reformation can’t be explained in a simple paragraph or two. The mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I was the reason the Church of England was formed when Pope Clement VII refused to give Henry a divorce to marry Anne. Her failure to …
Numerous parks, a university, a river, a beach, a couple of counties, an island and a state forest are just some the things you get named for you when you are the first European to explore the northern Mississippi River and the upper Midwest. Father Jacques Marquette was only 37 years old when he died on May 18, 1675 having …
What does meeting the needs of your fellow man look like? For dedicated Christian layman John Flynn it was a heart for people of the Australian outback (not the steakhouse) who lacked many things including medical care. One story was about a boy thrown from a horse who died because it took 13 days for a doctor to get to …
When D.L. Moody went to England and preached for the first time he didn’t know he would influence a young boy named Campbell Morgan. By the time Morgan was 13 he preached his first sermon and by 16 he was preaching regularly throughout England and he was eventually ordained in the Congregationalist church. His association with Moody and the Moody …
