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David Livingstone, Missionary Explorer: Recommended Resources
David Livingstone, Missionary Explorer
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The Paradox of David Livingstone: Did You Know?
Little-known or remarkable facts about David Livingstone: missionary explorer
Ruth A. Tucker
The Paradox of David Livingstone: From the Editor - Livingstone - The Great Non-Missionary
Mark Galli
Discovering Livingstone
The man, the missionary, the explorer, the legend.
Alvyn Austin
Creatures Great and Small and Annoying
Dr. Livingstone was also a meticulous scientist.
Alvyn Austin
David in the Lion's Den
Livingstone seemed unimpressed by the great cats—even after being attacked by one.
Alvyn Austin
On Expedition in Africa
The explorer encounters an exotic continent.
David Livingstone
The Evil that Baffled Reformers
African slavery thwarted every effort to eradicate it.
Ted Olsen
David Livingstone, Missionary Explorer
Elizabeth Isichei
The Man with Three Wives
Though Livingstone loved his family, he spent little time with them.
Elizabeth Isichei
Finding a Useful Wife
Bachelor Livingstone's unromantic stroll into marriage.
Ted Olsen
The Other Livingstone
The same traits that led the explorer to greatness, led him into the Zambezi disaster.
Ted Olsen
The Paradox of David Livingstone: A Gallery of Pioneers & Pallbearers
Those closest to the remarkable explorer were often remarkable themselves.
Steven T. Grezlak
Accidental Missionary
Henry Stanley did more than find Livingstone—he followed him.
Elesha Hodge
Link Essay: Great White Father
After Livingstone opened Africa, Western missionaries moved in by the thousands. Did they hurt or help Africans?
Mark Shaw
The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: Did You Know? - The Frenzied Twenties
The tumultuous culture in which American churches waged their religious war
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The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: From the Editor - A Movement to Make One Mad
Mark Galli
The Monkey Trial
The first trial of the century revealed a great divide separating American Christians.
David Goetz
Prayer Debate
Who could pray at the trial?
David Goetz
Bizarre Meaning
Darrow Takes the Stand
Bryan cross-examines his adversary.
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The Press Weighs In
Condensed editorials from the summer of 1925 show a nation at odds.
User-Friendly Faith
What liberals believed—and why fundamentalists made such a fuss.
Harold Carl
Right Jabs and Left Hooks
All fundamentalists fought with modernists—but not for the same reasons or in the same way.
D.G. Hart
The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: Christian History Timeline
The Monkey Trial & the Rise of Fundamentalism: A Gallery of Militants, Moderates, & Millionaires
It's pretty hard to stereotype early fundamentalist leaders.
Kelvin Crow
Fundamentalist Internet
The people, conferences, and organizations that made up the fundamentalist family.
Bob Jones IV
Relevant Morality
Modernism's most popular preacher on the hopes of liberals.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A Return to Bondage
Fundamentalism's most gifted theologian critiques liberalism.
J. Gresham Machen
An Army of Conservative Women
Women played a surprisingly prominent role in early fundamentalism.
Mary Ann Jeffreys
Enraptured with Order
How fundamentalists strove mightily to make sense of history.
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The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: Christian History Interview - Spurring on Secularism
The leading historian of fundamentalism assesses the damages inflicted by the fundamentalist-modernist controversy.
interview with George Marsden
The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: Christian History Interview - Here We Stand
A fundamentalist historian answers the critics of fundamentalism.
interview with Mark Sidwell
The Monkey Trial and the Rise of Fundamentalism: Recommended Resources
The Rise of Fundamentalism
Mark Galli
Eastern Orthodoxy: Did You Know?
Little-known or fascinating facts about Eastern Orthodoxy
Daniel B. Clendenin
Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Editor - Exotic Orthodoxy
Exotic Orthodoxy
Mark Galli
The Great Divorce
For centuries Christians East and West lived as strangers to one another. Then Catholics violated the Orthodox.
Mark Galli
Imperious Mistress?
An Orthodox archbishop on the Catholic pope.
Better the Infidel
Why two attempts at reunion were rejected by the Orthodox people.
Mark Galli
Kissers and Smashers
Why the Orthodox killed one another over icons.
Bradley Nassif
The Spirit-Bearers
If you know a little about Eastern monasticism, you know a great deal about Eastern Orthodoxy.
John Chryssavgis
Eastern Orthodoxy to 1453: Christian History Timeline
Eastern Orthodoxy to 1453 (A.D)
Gerald Bray
Eastern Orthodoxy: A Gallery of Impact Pray-ers
Five men who still define Orthodox spirituality.
Gregory and Federica Mathewes-Green
What the Orthodox Believe
Four key differences between the Orthodox and Protestants.
Daniel B. Clendenin
An Exercise in Wonder
Orthodox writers on the deep mysteries of the Christian faith.
various Orthodox writers
The Counsels of Christ
The Orthodox believe Jesus' voice can still be heard in the seven ecumenical councils.
Stanley Samuel Harakas
A Taste of Glory
For the Orthodox, worship is heaven on earth.
Paul Meyendorff
We Do Not Wish to Blur the Faith
The spiritual head of Orthodoxy speaks some frank words to Protestants.
interview with Bartholomew I, archbishop of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodoxy: Christian History Interview - An Evangelical Appraisal
The strength of Orthodoxy, it turns out, is also its greatest temptation.
interview with Harold O.J. Brown
Eastern Orthodoxy: Recommended Resources
Eastern Orthodoxy
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William Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Did You Know?
Little-known or remarkable facts about William Wilberforce and the Century of Reform
Richard V. Pierard
William Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: From the Editor - Fishing for Compassion
Fishing for Compassion
Mark Galli
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
An introduction to the turbulent 19th century.
The "Shrimp" Who Stopped Slavery
the most malignant evil of the British Empire ceased largely because of the faith and persistence of William Wilberforce.
Christopher D. Hancock
A Profitable Little Business
The tragic economics of the slave trade.
Mark Galli
William Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Gallery of Aristocratic Activists
The Clapham Sect was one of the most elite and effective bands of Christian social reformers—ever
Bruce Hindmarsh
A Long Reach
The Clapham Sect's impact in India—and the world.
Bruce Hindmarsh
William Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Christian History Timeline
The Christian History Timeline by Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams
Greatness Upon Greatness
Lord Shaftesbury and William Gladstone, like Wilberforce, had Christ in their hearts and politics in their blood.
Kevin Charles Belmonte
Urban Renewal: Saving the Slums
Christian ministry in the "pestilent heathen byways" of the inner city.
Donald M. Lewis
Medical Care: The Lady of the Lamp
Whether on her feet or from her sickbed, Florence Nightingale worked to save lives.
Kelvin D. Crow
Education: Classrooms in Hell
The first Sunday schools were not for respectable and well-mannered children of believers.
Kelvin D. Crow
Civil Rights: Dismantling Discrimination
Key evangelicals who distrusted Catholics and Jews argued for their civil rights.
John Wolffe
Prison Reform: Brutality Behind Bars
Women's prisons were hellish places before Elizabeth Fry started working there.
Danny Day
Child Labor: White Slavery
Children were perhaps the most mistreated people in England.
Penelope Carson
William Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Christian History Interview - Christian Clout Then and Now
What 19th-century British reformers teach us about Christian social action today.
interview with John Wolffe
William Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Recommended Resources
William Wilberforce & the Century of Reform
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