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Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?

Key reasons advanced by southern church leaders

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Do You Know the History of the Christian Flag?

White represents purity and peace, blue indicates fidelity, and red stands for Christ's blood sacrifice.

Elesha Coffman
Martin Luther King, Jr.

No Christian played a more prominent role in the 20th century's most significant social justice movement.

Russel Moldovan

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Christianity in China
Issue 98, 2008
America’s 20th Century Evangelical Awakening
Issue 92, 2006
Adoniram & Ann Judson: American Mission Pioneers
Issue 90, 2006
C. S. Lewis: Pointing People to Reality
Issue 88, 2005
Christianity in India: A Faith of Many Colors
Issue 87, 2005
George MacDonald: Writer Who Inspired C.S. Lewis
Issue 86, 2005
Pilgrims & Exiles: Amish, Mennonites, & Brethren
Issue 84, 2004
Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement
Issue 82, 2004
African Apostles: Black Evangelists in Africa
Issue 79, 2003
J.R.R. Tolkien & Lord of the Rings
Issue 78, 2003
G.K. Chesterton: Prolific Writer & Apologist
Issue 75, 2002
How the West was Really Won
Issue 66, 2000
Ten Influential Christians of the 20th Century
Issue 65, 2000
Bound for Canaan: Africans in America
Issue 62, 1999
David Livingstone: Missionary-explorer in Africa
Issue 56, 1997
Hudson Taylor & Missions to China
Issue 52, 1996
Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders: Frontier Revivals
Issue 45, 1995
William Carey: 19th c. Missionary to India
Issue 36, 1992
Christianity & the Civil War
Issue 33, 1992
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian in Nazi Germany
Issue 32, 1991
Charles Spurgeon: England's “Prince of Preachers”
Issue 29, 1991
William & Catherine Booth: Salvation Army Founders
Issue 26, 1990
Dwight L. Moody: 19th c. Evangelist
Issue 25, 1990
Spiritual Awakenings in North America
Issue 23, 1989
Charles Finney: American Revivalism
Issue 20, 1988
C. S. Lewis: His Life, Thought, & Theology
Issue 7, 1985

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Ten Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About C. S. Lewis

Unusual facts and common misunderstandings that take your knowledge beyond Narnia.

William O'Flaherty
Five Ways We Misunderstand American Religious History

From religious liberty to religious violence, it helps to get our facts straight.

Thomas S. Kidd
Martin Niemöller

Confessing pastor and repentant nationalist

James Strasburg
The First Mexican Protestant Loved the Bible

How Ambrosio Gonzales encountered the Word of God and blazed the trail for future Latino converts.

Eric Rivera

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Story Behind

Why Putting Christ Back in Christmas Is Not Enough

The history of American holiday cheer obscures the difficult details of the nativity narrative.

W. David O. Taylor
El primer protestante mexicano amó la Biblia

Cómo Ambrosio Gonzales encontró la Palabra de Dios y abrió el camino para futuros conversos latinos.

Por Eric Rivera, traducido por Maribel Skerrett

English
Jesus Befriended Prostitutes. So This Victorian-Era Woman Did Too.

Josephine Butler’s faith prompted her to challenge the status quo of her day.

Kimi Harris
How Sunday School Sparked Revival in Egypt's Oldest Church

Inspired by Western missionaries, a humble Coptic cleric gave new life to the ancient church through education.

Jayson Casper

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Martin Niemöller
Confessing pastor and repentant nationalist
Thomas Forsyth Torrance
Ecumenical Theologian
Jarena Lee
Trailblazing African American Preacher and 'self-made' woman.
Catherine Booth
Compelling preacher and co-founder of the Salvation Army
Elizabeth Fry
Prison reformer
William Gladstone
Prime Minister of impeccable morals
Walter Rauschenbusch
Champion of the social gospel
Lord Shaftesbury (Antony Ashley Cooper)
Godly English statesman
Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women's rights advocate
Harriet Tubman
The "Moses" of Her People
William Booth
First General of the Salvation Army
Francis Asbury
Methodist on horseback
Alexander Campbell
This 18th century Irishman became one of the founders of the Disciples of Christ and the Church of Christ.
William Miller
Mistaken founder of Adventism
Richard Allen
Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church
Charles Finney
Father of American revivalism
Billy Graham
Evangelist to millions
Dwight L. Moody
Revivalist with a common touch
Billy Sunday
Salty evangelist
Oswald Chambers
Preacher who gave his utmost
Andrew Murray
Leading student in Christ's school of prayer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and resister
William Carey
Father of modern Protestant missions
Hudson Taylor
Faith missionary to China
David Livingstone
Missionary-explorer of Africa
Søren Kierkegaard
Christian existentialist
Phoebe Palmer
Mother of the holiness movement
G. K. Chesterton
"Enormous" Essayist, poet, writer
C.S. Lewis
Scholar, author, and apologist
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist of spiritual depth
George MacDonald
Fabled Victorian writer
Dorothy Sayers
Mystery writer and apologist
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lyman Beecher
Revivalist who moved with the times
John Nelson Darby
Father of dispensationalism
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberalism's popularizer
Charles Simeon
Evangelical Mentor and Model
Charles Spurgeon
Finest nineteenth-century preacher
Fanny Crosby
Prolific and blind hymn writer
T.S. Eliot
Modernist poet
Karl Barth
Courageous theologian

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