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Pilgrims and Exiles: Christian History Timeline
Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren
Phoebe Palmer: Recommended Resources
A little help navigating the kaleidoscopic holiness revival
John Newton: From the Editor - New life-and a "new" magazine
Eyewitness
The spark that lit the Welsh revival
The American Anthem
How Amazing Grace went from ignored in Britain to acclaimed in America
Steve Turner
Eyewitness
David Brainerd: I could scarce believe he used me.
Jennifer Trafton
Pilgrims and Exiles: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about America's Anabaptists
Shaken Up by the Peace-Lovers
A trip through Pennsylvania's Lancaster County.
Chris Armstrong
Living History
Monastery in a war zone, affluent Essenes, and Luther's loo
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Eyewitness
David Brainerd: I could scarce believe he used me.
Jennifer Trafton
Was King Arthur really a Pelagian?
Ted Olsen
A People of Conscience
How America's plain people first arose in Europe as a discipleship movement repressed by the state church.
Chris Armstrong & Jeff Bach
The Germans Have Landed
Once William Penn welcomed the freedom-seeking Anabaptists to his colony, they spread and flourished.
David Eller
Outsider's Guide to America's Anabaptists
Making sense of the colorful, complex tapestry of Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren.
Steven Gertz
Pure & Simple
Ever wonder what the plain people's churches look and feel like? Here's an insider account.
Stephen Scott
Holy Ground
One of the most visible practices among the American Anabaptists, the Brethren love feast exemplifies humility and community.
Frank Ramirez
Be Not Conformed
Why have American Anabaptists lived in protest against the modern world?
John D. Roth
From Mutual Aid to Global Action
How the Anabaptist emphasis on practical acts of love led a tightly knit enclave to reach out to the world.
Gari-Anne Patzwald and William Kostlevy
Negotiating with the Modern World
In the late 19th and early 20th century, modernity caught up with the Anabaptists.
Donald B. Kraybill
Pilgrims and Exiles: Recommended Resources
More Anabaptist insider information
Steven Gertz
Bride of the Reformation
Edwin Woodruff Tait
Grace at the negotiating table
Bruce Heydt
Mary: Did You Know?
The Seven Joys of Mary
Chris Armstrong
Mary: From the Editor
Mary and the Flabbergasting Fact
Chris Armstrong
A Kinder Inquisition, Name That Tomb, and Chunky Monks
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Recovering a Protestant Mary
A conversation with Timothy George
Hail Mary
Her moment of obedience triggered two millennia of reverence.
David Lyle Jeffrey
That Most Familiar Story
How certain details of the nativity became tradition.
Sarah E. Dahl
Mary & Her Baby: Luther's View
The Reformer loved to dwell on the nativity. Here are a few of his thoughts.
Mary & Her Baby: Luther's View
Mary in the Imagination of the Church
Temple & Sword
At the temple, long before the cross, her son's cruel death pierced Mary.
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
The Hidden Years
What did Mary do during the youth and ministry of her son?
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Mary at the Cross
From three little verses in John has come a rich tradition of song and art.
Patrick Henry Reardon
The Queen Mother?
John seems to tap a Hebrew political tradition to show Mary in an exalted role.
Patrick Henry Reardon
Mary: Recommended Resources
A few good places for Protestants to explore the church's thought on the mother of our Lord.
Steven Gertz and Chris Armstrong
People Worth Knowing
Discovering devotional masters
Richard Foster
Turning Point
The Day God Settled the Bible Question for Billy Graham
Collin Hansen
The Doctor Who Followed Jesus to Africa
Dr. Timothy Johnson
Phoebe Palmer: Did You Know?
Interesting facts about the American Holiness revival
Chris Armstrong
Phoebe Palmer: From the Editor
Phoebe Who?
Chris Armstrong
Living History
From fire on Mount Athos to Saxon king crosses
Compiled by Ted Olsen and Chris Mosey
Eyewitness
Did you know men slept on the Bridges?
William Booth
The Da Vinci Code, Corrected
Why the lost gospels were really lost
Craig Keener
Holiness Fire-Starter
Transformed by her child's fiery death, Phoebe Palmer lit the flames of revival on two continents.
Charles Edward White
The Cleansing Wave
The 19th-century holiness revival took many forms as it swept across denominational boundaries.
Edwin Woodruff Tait
The Holiness Movement Timeline
1824-1923
Saving Souls & Bodies
Contrary to stereotype, the joy of the holiness life often spilled over into social ministry.
William Kostlevy
The Lord's Agitators
Holiness leaders were a fractious bunch, but there was vision behind their division.
Sarah E. Johnson, Ginger Kolbaba, Jennifer Woodruff Tait, and Stan Ingersol
I received my commission from Him, brother
How women preachers built up the holiness movement
Jennifer Woodruff Tait
The Quest
Christians have long desired to live lives unmarred by sin—and have walked many roads on the quest.
Elesha Coffman
1854: Three Voices Wake a Sleeping Church
Bruce Heydt
Innocent's Corrupted Crusade
Good intentions couldn't stop Innocent III's crusade from going horribly wrong.
Steven Gertz
Changed Lives
How I entered George MacDonald's world
Madeleine L'Engle
All of Christian History in 6 Hours
This audio tour de force is strong meat for a mature Christian audience.
Chris Armstrong
John Newton: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about John Newton's life and times
Living History
From Bede's world to Whitefield's thumb
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Eyewitness
Wesley's word to a condemned malefactor.
Story Behind
The original Christian bumper sticker
Collin Hansen
The Amazingly Graced Life of John Newton
His was a tale of two lives, with God at the pivot point.
Chris Armstrong
The Life and Times of John Newton 1725-1807
Forging Britain's Gospel Era
Newton joined those who laid the groundwork for British evangelicalism—from within the Established Church.
Mark Smith
The Captain & the Castaway
The tempest-tossed friendship of John Newton and William Cowper
Jennifer M. Trafton
Pastor to the Nation
Newton responded to thousands of requests for spiritual counsel with letters advising the lowly and the great.
Steven Gertz
Not a Synod but a Salon
The evangelical underground plotted England's and the world's salvation at a London pub.
Aaron Belz
People Worth Knowing
No Little Women here
Chris Armstrong
Turning Point: Luther's Lost Opportunity
At Marburg, the last hope of a united Protestantism ran aground on the Last Supper.
Bruce Heydt
I am a "Sim"
Gordon MacDonald
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