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The English Puritans: Recommended Resources
If this issue has piqued your interest in pilgrimaging with the Puritans, here are some books that will aid your progress.
The English Puritans: Christian History Timeline
On the Record: The Character of an Old English Puritan or Noncoformist
The classic description of Puritanism from a 1646 tract by John Geree
Michelangelo: Christian History Timeline
John Owen put me straight
J. I. Packer
Adoniram and Ann Judson: Recommended Resources
From the Editor: Climbing the family tree
Jennifer Trafton
A New Evangelical Awakening: Did You Know?
Interesting and Little Known Facts about America's Mid Century Evangelical Resurgence
LIVING HISTORY
Patron Saint Nearly Benched
Compiled by David Neff and Rebecca Golossanov
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum!
A brief history of the Christmas tree.
Edwin Woodruff Tait
"America's Hour Has Struck"
As the 20th century reached its midpoint, visionary Boston preacher Harold John Ockenga helped launch a "new era in evangelical Christianity."
Garth M. Rosell
Who Were the "Fundamentalists"?
Many people associate this word with religious bigotry and close-mindedness. But in the early 20th century, fundamentalists were simply evangelicals determined to do battle for the faith.
Douglas A. Sweeney
The New Evangelicalism
Harold John Ockenga defines the vision of the movement in this excerpt from a sermon preached at Park Street Church on December 8, 1957.
The Young and the Zealous
How do you change the course of the nation's future? Youth for Christ had the answer: Win over the next generation.
Bruce L. Shelley
The Riptide of Revival
Billy Graham's early crusades stirred the sleeping conscience of mid-century America.
William Martin
Ambitious for God
Henrietta Mears loved hats, college students, and the boundless possibilities of Christian ministry.
Jennifer Woodruff Tait
Evangelical Entrepreneurs
The Parachurch phenomenon
Michael S. Hamilton
America's Evangelical Explosion
The central section of the timeline shows the growth of evangelical parachurch organizations, institutions, and associations during this era. Founders names are in parentheses.
The Born-Again Mind
Harold John Ockenga's conviction that the church needs thinkers helped spark a renaissance of evangelical scholarship.
George Marsden
Awakening the Evangelical Conscience
The New Evangelicals called for a fresh application of Christian truth to the social problems of the day.
Richard J. Mouw
One in the Spirit?
Evangelicals are still searching for the elusive ideal of unity.
Douglas A. Sweeney
A New Evangelical Awakening: Recommended Resources
Dig Deeper into this issue's theme
PEOPLE WORTH KNOWING
The Politics of Service
Three Christian activists who drew on faith to fight social challenges
Collin Hansen
CHANGED LIVES
Fueled by Fervent Prayer
Youth for Christ's praying community sent young Harold Myra on a lifetime quest.
Michelangelo: Did You Know?
Interesting facts about Michelangelo and the Renaissance
Michelangelo: From the Editor - A Flood of Pictures
Jennifer Trafton
Living History
Compiled by David Neff and Rebecca Golossanov
The Face That's Everywhere
We've all seen it. An entire generation grew up with this image of Jesus in their minds. But who made it, and how did it become so popular?
David Morgan
Painting the Town Holy
Rebirth and reform in Renaissance Italy.
Jennifer Trafton
Larger Than Life
Michelangelo Buonarotti reached the pinnacle of fame as a sculptor, painter, and architect, yet he longed for something more.
Laurel Gasque
Scripture on the Ceiling
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel make a profound statement about the creation story—and the artist's own creativity.
James Romaine
The Stones Will Cry Out
The theme of Christ's death followed Michelangelo through his whole life.
Jill Carrington
The Art of Grace
Justification by faith, in living color.
Thomas F. Mayer
A Renaissance Gallery
Five artists who captured the imagination of the church
Rachel Smith
Michelangelo: Recommended Resources
Sources the editors found useful in compiling information for this issue, as well as books recommended by our authors.
Delighted by doctrine
Timothy George
Fighting Demons In The Desert
How a book about one man's radical quest for God helped to redefine Christian discipleship and launch the monastic movement.
Chris Armstrong
Portrait of the Artist as a Servant
The masterpieces of Fra Angelico showed painter Bruce Herman the beauty of Christian truth—and his own calling as a Christian artist.
Bruce Herman
Adoniram & Ann Judson: Did You Know?
Interesting and little-known facts about the Judsons and other early American missionaries.
Compiled by Rebecca Golossanov
Adoniram & Ann Judson: From the Editor - American Dreams
Jennifer Trafton
Living History
In New Orleans, the saints go marching on.
Compiled By Chris Armstrong
Seats of learning
Why we sit in church.
Jennifer Woodruff Tait
Let Freedom Ring
The young American republic was ready to break new frontiers-at home and abroad. It's no wonder missionary pioneers Adoniram and Ann Judson were the "American Idols" of their day.
Ruth A. Tucker
The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese
As a preacher, Translator, prisoner, Husband, and homeland hero, Adoniram Judson demonstrated his conviction that a missionary is a missionary for life.
Richard V. Pierard
The Mother of Modern Missions
By bravely going where no American wife had gone before, Ann Hasseltine Judson inspired generations of women to become missionaries.
Dana L. Robert
The Golden Kingdom
What was the exotic, distant land of Burma like? Ann Judson's memoirs gave 19th-century Americans a Provocative glimpse.
James Homer Thrall
Timeline
The Early Missions Movement: America goes global
From Sea to Shining Sea
Separation, seasickness, and study prepared early American missionaries for the ardors of the work ahead.
Stephen R. Berry
Go, Ye Heralds of Salvation
The music of missions
John W. Worst
Lord, Send Us
A Kaleidoscope of evangelists
Sarah Johnson and Eileen Moffett
Unforgettable
Both near and far, the Judson legacy endures.
Rosalie Hall Hunt
Fighting the Other Slave Trade
Women against sexual trafficking.
Lisa Thompson
From Azusa Street to the ends of the earth
Gary B. McGee
Uniting Personal Faith and the Larger Church
What I learned from reading the letters of Ignatius of Antioch.
Patrick Henry Reardon
Richard Baxter and the English Puritans: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the English Puritans.
Compiled by Jennifer Trafton and Leland Ryken
A Man. A Magazine. A Crème Egg.
Jennifer Trafton
Living History
Oldest church discovered, Christian history in the movies, rare book by Roger Williams
Chris Armstrong
Sweet Charity
The Quakers behind Cadbury chocolate
Elesha Coffman
Physicians of the Soul
J. I. Packer discusses the English Puritans, their quest for holiness, and why they are still worth remembering.
A Pen in God's Hand
Richard Baxter wrote, preached, taught, and visited his way to become the model pastor.
Paul C. H. Lim
The Puritan Moses
Believing he was on a mission from God, Oliver Cromwell became both military genius and lawgiver.
Collin Hansen
Preachers & Poets
"Though dead, by their writings they yet speak."—George Whitefield
William Barker and Leland Ryken
The Original Puritan Work Ethic
By valuing all of life in relation to God, Puritans gave sacred significance to every activity.
Leland Ryken
Richard & Margaret
Difficult man + difficult woman = model marriage.
J. William Black
The Cost of Pilgrimage
After the Restoration, Protestants persecuted Protestants like never before.
John Coffey
Martyrs to the Spear
Fifty years after five missionaries were murdered in Ecuador, their story still inspires.
Kathryn Long and Carolyn Nystrom
Turning Point
The Crowning of Charlemagne
Patrick Henry Reardon
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