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History of Christianity is a six part survey designed to stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of pivotal events and persons in the spread of the church.
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The dates refer to the focus date of a story when known, otherwise any key year associated with the subject.
? means that a year is uncertain or unknown within a wide range
ca. means "circa," or "about"
ff means "and following"
fl. means flourished
1901ff . . Amy
Carmichael, Kindly Kidnapper (Glimpses)
1901ff . . Modern
Persecution (Glimpses)
1901 . . . Was
Agnes Ozman Speaking Chinese?
1901 . . . Amy
Carmichael's First Act of Kidnapping
1901 . . . John
Stainer, Composer of The Crucifixion
1901 . . . Chalmers
and Co. Clubbed to Death on the Fly
1901 . . . Clara Maass Died to End Yellow Jack
1902 . . . Taft's
Curious Connection with the Church
1902ff . . J.C. Penney (Glimpses)
1903 . . . Baptism of Indian Warrior
Geronimo
1903 . . . Sundar
Singh's Vision of Christ
1903 . . . Sundar
Singh, The Seeking Sikh (Glimpses)
1904 . . . Let
There Be Peace Between Argentina and Chile
1904 . . . Althea
Brown Feared for Her Life
1904 . . . Revival
Swept Across Wales (Glimpses)
1905 . . . Lew
Wallace, Author of Ben Hur
1905 . . . Russian
Evangelicals Promised Tolerance
1905 . . . Harold
Ockenga, American Evangelical Leader
1905 . . . Enter
Dag Hammarskjold
1905 . . . George
MacDonald, Original Author
1905 . . . Thomas
Barnardo's Head Grew Heavy
1906 . . . Oswald
Smith: "The Greatest Event of My Life"
1906 . . . Holy
Spirit Fell on Seymour & Associates
1906 . . . Josephine
Butler Championed Women
1906 . . . Kurt Godel
Proved Truth Higher than Logic
1907 . . . Abraham Kuyper, Statesman-Theologian
1907 . . . Heaven's
Hound Got Francis Thompson
1907ff . . C.
S. Lewis: Chronicles of an Apologist (Glimpses)
1909 . . . Sheldon
Jackson Accommodated the Newspapers
1909 . . . Genesis
Is History, not Myth
1910 . . . A
Day for Father
1910 . . . Robert
T. Ketcham Converted
1910 . . . Lars
Skrefsrud, Norway's Famous Missionary
1911 . . . Off
the Cuff Decision Sparked Boreham Series
1911 . . . Hannah
W. Smith's Secret of Happiness
1911 . . . The
Story of Shiloh (Glimpses)
1912 . . . Joseph
Lister
1912 . . . While
Titanic Sank, John Harper Preached
1912
. . . Millionaire Borden of
Yale Gave All for Christ
1913 . . . Bennard
Introduced "The Old Rugged Cross"
1913 . . . Earthly
Remains of Lord Radstock
1913 . . . Jack
Wyrtzen, Founder of Word of Life
1914 . . . Pulling
Together--Assembly of God
1914 . . . Woodrow Wilson Proclaimed Mother's Day
1914 . . . The
Christmas Truce
1915 . . . Mary
Slessor Tried to Transform Nigeria
1915 . . . Turkish
Order to Murder Armenians at Aleppo
1915 . . . Fanny
Crosby, American Hymn Writer (Glimpses)
1916 . . . Father
de Foucauld Martyred in the Sahara
1916 . . . Suwa
Maru Docked at Kobe with Irene Webster-Smith
1916 . . . Assassination
of Rasputin
1917 . . . Mother
Cabrini
1917 . . . Death
of Holy Spirit Student, Stephen Merritt
1917 . . . Shy
Henry Swete Battled for Bible Truth
1917 . . . 3
Children Predicted Something at Fatima
1917 . . . Cameron
Townsend Resolved to Do God's Will
1917 . . . Father
Flanagan Opened Home for Poor Boys
1917 . . . Bolsheviks
Bore Down on Orthodox
1918 . . . Ludwig
Nommensen's Amazing Faith & Foresight
1918 . . . Joseph Gilmore's Memorable Hymn
1919 . . . Lillian Trasher forced to Leave Egypt
1919 . . . Religious
Implications of Eddington's Evidence
1920 . . . Peter
Dyneka Was Dynamite
1921 . . . KDKA
Made Religious Waves
1921 . . . Alexander
Whyte Overcame Illigitimacy
1921 . . . Death
of Deaconness Elizabeth Fedde
1921 . . . William
Temple Enjoyed a Children's March
1921 . . . Cyrus
Ingerson Scofield Passed to Judgment
1921 . . . Florence Matheny, Missionary to Japan
1921 . . . William
Kirkpatrick Wrote to Rescue Souls
1921 . . . Campus Crusade's Bill Bright
1921 . . . P.T.
Forsyth's Unique Perspective
1922 . . . Mr.
Chesterton Made His Confession
1922 . . . Death
of Soul-winning Merchant, John Wanamaker
1924 . . . Rambo's
Elephant-size Problem
1924 . . . Death
of Ivan Prokhanov, One of the Milk People
1924 . . . Eric
Liddell's Olympic Victory
1924ff . . Eric
Liddell: Champion Athlete (Glimpses)
1924ff . . Eric
Liddell: Finishing the Race (Glimpses)
1924 . . . Miserable
Hannah R. Hurnard Was Converted
1924 . . . James
Moffatt's Modern-Language Bible
1925 . . . Butler
Bill Forbade Teachers to Deny Creation
1925 . . . Faith
Put Harold Wildish on a Boat
1925 . . . Conwell
Preached Help Neighbor & Reap Diamonds
1926 . . . Jungle
Doctor Signed a Decision Card
1926 . . . Bob
Childress Headed for the Hills
1926ff . . Bob
Childress Who Tamed the Buffalo (Glimpses)
1928 . . . China Trio Returned to Share Gospel in the Gobi
1928 . . . Flynn's Flying
Ambulance for the Outback
1928 . . . Tozer
Began Long-Lasting Chicago Ministry
1929 . . . World's
Smallest Sovereign State Born
1929 . . . Fear
of Conscience in the USSR
1930 . . . Harry
Emerson Fosdick Dedicated Riverside Church
1931 . . . Indian
Warrior Oakerhater Followed New Captain
1931 . . . C.S.
Lewis' Sidecar Conversion
1931 . . . Quadragesimo
anno
1932 . . . John
Stam Chosen for China
1932 . . . Allen
Yuan Converted, Thanks to Prayer
1932 . . . Gladys
Aylward's "Impossible Mission" to China
1933 . . . Dawson
Trotman's Dry Land Navigators
1933 . . . Kivebulaya,
The Congo's Extraordinary Evangelist
1933 . . . Codex
Sinaiticus to Britain via St. Petersburg
1934 . . . Reformed
Churches Muzzled but Protest at Barmen
1934 . . . Betty
& John Stam Martyred (Glimpses)
1936 . . . Ethiopian
Church Did More than Survive
1936 . . . Hugh
Ross Mackintosh's Scottish Theology
1936 . . . Congo
Martyr Bill McChesney
1937 . . . With
Burning Concern, an Encyclical
1937 . . . Arthur
Pink Wrote One of Many Letters
1937 . . . No
Obstacle Too Big for LeTourneau's God
1938 . . . Niemoller
Imprisoned for Righteous Resistance
1938 . . . The
Kuhn's Rainy Season Bible School
1939 . . . Theodore
Epp Aired 1st Back to the Bible Program
1939 . . . Energetic
Evangelist W. E. Biederwolf
1941 . . . Maximilian
Kolbe Gave His Life for another Man
1941 . . . Marianna
Slocum's Last Days with Her Fiance
1941 . . . Sayer's
The Man Born to Be King
1942 . . . Martyrs'
Remembered in Papua
1943 . . . Carver's
Secret of Success
1943 . . . 4
Chaplains Set a High Standard of Heroism
1944 . . . Conversion
of Chain Gang Convict, Ed Martin
1944 . . . Corrie
Ten Boom Suffered More than Flu
1944 . . . Death
of Amazing Chinese Evangelist John Sung
1945 . . . "Dear
Freya..." Martyr Moltke's Last Letter
1945 . . . Bonhoeffer's
New Residence Not a Nice Place
1945 . . . Bonhoeffer Executed on Hitler's Order (Glimpses)
1945 . . . John
Noble Learned to Pray
1945 . . . Robert
Jaffray Died in a Dirty Japanese Prison
1945 . . . Little
Boy Obliterated Pastor Kiyoshi's Family
1947 . . . Inimitable
Peter Marshall Took on the Senate
1947 . . . A
Conscientious Baptist Split
1947 . . . The Ayor Came out of the Jungle
1947 . . . Ecumenical
Church in India
1947ff . . Evelyn
"Granny" Brand (Glimpses)
1948 . . . Trever
Asks to Photograph Dead Sea Scrolls
1948 . . . Prisoner
Number One: Richard Wurmbrandt
1948 . . . Union
Jack Down, Star of David Rises
1948 . . . Death
of Melody Man, Luther B. Bridgers
1948 . . . The
Triumph of the Far East Broadcasting Co.
1948 . . . Formation of World Council of Churches
1948 . . . Arrest
of Valiant Cardinal Mindszenty
1949 . . . Last
of the Inklings' Thursday Meetings
1950 . . . Hot
Lead in Columbia Felled Pastor Quintana
1950 . . . Evangeline
Cory Booth Spent Her Years for God
1950 . . . Rescuers
Failed to Reach Downed New Tribes Plane
1950 . . . Bill
Wallace Arrested in Early Morning Raid
1950 . . . Pius XII Announced Discovery of Peter's Tomb
ca. 1950ff . . Harriet Tubman
(Glimpses)
1952 . . . Death
of Bible-backing Archaeologist Kenyon
1954 . . . Billy
Graham Took a Bombshell
1954 . . . What
Wang Ming-Dao Preached before His Arrest
1955 . . . Stanley
Tam Gave God the Business
1955 . . . Promoter
of World Missions, John Mott
1955 . . . Last
Flight for Al Lewis
1955 . . . Neighbor
Search in Ecuador
1955 . . . Jesse
Overholtzer and Child Evangelism
1955 . . . Bishop
Kung Arrested by Communists
1956 . . . Missionaries
Died in Ecuador Jungle
1958 . . . Wilkerson
Became a Fool for Christ in Public
1959 . . . Coptic
Church Chose Kyrillos VI as 116th Patriarch
1963 . . . Russian
Pentecostals Took the Road
1963 . . . Birmingham
Blast: Why Children?
1963 . . . Death
of C.S. Lewis
1964 . . . Too
Late Warning for Irene Ferrel
1964 . . . Congo
Rebels Reached Helen Roseveare
1965 . . . Baptist
Union in Russia
1965 . . . East
& West churches Reconcile
1966 . . . Lemaitre's
Adieux to Scientific Creation Theory
1968 . . . Missionary Henry Blood died in Viet Cong Hands
1968 . . . Humanae
Vitae
1968 . . . Astronauts
Read Genesis from the Moon
1968 . . . Assassination
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1970 . . . Good-bye
to Frank Laubach, Apostle of Literacy
1970 . . . Teresa
of Avila, First Woman Doctor
1972 . . . Forbidden
Truth; Chronicle Documented Cruelty
1972 . . . 20th
Prison Anniversary for Watchman Nee
1972 . . . Moiseyev
Martyred by Soviets
1973 . . . Roe
vs. Wade: Abortion's Religious Dimension
1973 . . . "No
Intentional Wrongdoing" by Thomas Road Baptist
1973 . . . Chuck
Colson's 1st Geniune Prayer
1973 . . . Tolkien's
Middle-Earth a Christian World
1973 . . . Christian
Elements & Symbols in Tolkien
1973 . . . Ken
Pike: From Shyness to Scholastic Honors
1973 . . . Solzhenitsyn's
Gulag Archipelago Published
1974 . . . Feminine
Revolt: 11 Demand Ordination
1974 . . . The
End for Evelyn "Granny" Brand
1975 . . . Oliver
Plunkett Canonized
1977 . . . Christian
Campus Destroyed in Flood
1978 . . . US
Stamp Honored Ex-Slave Harriet Tubman
1978 . . . Solzhenitsyn's
Commencement Speech
1978 . . . The
New International Version Published
1980 . . . Outspoken
Hero, Bishop Romero, Assassinated
1981 . . . Coptic
Leader Shenouda III Deposed
1984 . . . Student
Protest in Poland
1984 . . . Schaeffer
Energized Evangelical Thought & Action
1984 . . . Noble
Alexander Stepped off a Plane
1984 . . . Vatican
Rebuked Theology of Marxists
1987 . . . J.
Edwin Orr, Revival Man
1987 . . . Pat
Robertson's Presidential Bid
1990 . . . Alexander
Men Murdered One Sunday
1992 . . . Islamic
Gunmen Hit Christian Radio Station
1993 . . . Missionaries
Kidnapped in Columbia
1993 . . . Finally
Israel & Vatican Agreed
1994 . . . Death
of Persistent Jim Broomhall
1999 . . . Columbine Killers
Targeted Christians, Too
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