Besides being one of the greatest preachers of all time, Charles Haddon Spurgeon also developed numerous commentaries and even trained pastors to be pastors. By the time he died on January 31, 1892, at age 57, it is estimated over 900 pastors went through his seminary. This is a picture of his grave shared by his wife Susanna from their …

How did Mennonites get their name? A former Catholic priest named Menno Simons renounced Catholicism on January 30, 1536, and was “re-baptized” by Anabaptist leader Obbe Philips. He later went on to write extensively about doctrine and theology and from his work the Mennonites were formed.

Endicott Peabody was a true renaissance man for his day. On January 29, 1882, he arrived fresh from what is now Boston’s Episcopal Divinity School in Tombstone, Arizona just months after the famed shoot out at the OK Corral. He went on to establish St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (pictured here) in Tombstone and from there back to Boston where he …

There is plenty of good reason to debate King Henry VIII’s theology. While he surely became “un-aligned” with the Church in Rome, the Church of England at that time was clearly no bastion of Protestantism. So the theology of Henry’s successor was very important when his young son Edward VI took the throne on January 28, 1547. Edward’s advisers made …

Indulgences granted by the Pope – and the abuse of the sale of them – was a critical component of Martin Luther’s “protesting” with the 95 Theses he nailed to the Wittenberg church doors. Indulgences were approved by Pope Clement VI on January 27, 1343. This is a picture of Pope Clement.

Peter Marshall, not the guy who hosted Hollywood Squares, was incredibly effective as a Presbyterian minister but most remembered for his time of service as the chaplain in the United States Senate. Marshall served in that post only a few years but became much better known through a biography-turned-movie written by his wife Catherine called A Man Called Peter. Chaplain …

What are most of us willing to do to spread the gospel? For Irene Ferrel that meant going into the heart of the Belgian Congo in 1964 right in the midst of a horrendous coup. The Congo was breaking away from its colonial rule from Belgian and Irene, a 42-year-old unmarried teacher and graduate of the Fundamental Bible Institute in …

Who woulda-thunk-it that Yale was formed to counter the liberalism of the Harvard Divinity School? Edward Wigglesworth was appointed the first divinity professor in America on January 24, 1722, and soon after began to have serious questions about Calvinism. This was too liberal of a position for many so they formed Yale College soon thereafter. Wigglesworth held the Thomas Hollis …

One of the founding families of America’s only Catholic colony (Maryland) was the Carrolls. Charles Carroll was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. Charles’ cousin Daniel was one of 5 men to have signed both the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution. Daniel’s brother was Father John Carroll, the first Archbishop of the United States. On …

What was the first church song you ever learned? My guess is yours was the same as mine: Jesus Loves Me. It was written by Anna Bartlett Warner who died on January 22, 1915. Raised literally across the street from the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. She and her sister Susan wrote a host of children’s novels …