Missionary John Hunt Arrives in Fiji, 1838
Week of December 18
The year 1838 was auspicious in the life of John Hunt. In February he met two missionaries to the Islands of Fiji in the Pacific Ocean and heard of the rampant cannibalism there...
Roald Amundsen Arrives at the South Pole, 1911
Week of December 11
Norwegian explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen lived almost at the other end of the world. He defied the predictions that he would end...
Anselm Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, 1093
Week of December 4
Scholasticism is the term given to the theology of the Middle Ages (c.500-1500 AD). The Schoolmen “collected, analyzed and systematized" the...
Gene Moran Falls from the Sky, 1943
Week of November 27
In war there are a million ways to die. Occasionally someone, by the providence of God, survives what killed almost 100% of men caught in the same situation. A Wisconsin farm boy, eager to enlist...
Death of Leo Tolstoy, 1910
Week of November 20
Several Russian novelists produced works that appear on almost every list of “the greatest novels ever written;” Count Lev Nickolayevich Tolstoy usually sits atop that list. On November 20, 1910...
The Legacy of Robert Fairlie of Edinburgh, 1572
Week of November 13
If Christians paid more attention to history and genealogy, they might find godly lines of many generations in their own past...
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 1975
Week of November 6
The Great Lakes contain 21% of the world’s fresh water by volume—more than 94,000 square miles of surface. Lakes Superior...
The Edict of Nantes Proclaimed, 1598
Week of April 10
Several of the greatest preachers, evangelists and theologians of the Protestant Reformation were born in France, often writing in French as well as Latin. They pastored churches in France…
The Battle of New Orleans, 1815
Week of January 2
If ever there was an international city in America, New Orleans was it. The city was founded by the French Mississippi Company in 1718, ceded to Spain as a result of the French and Indian War...
Birth of Theodore Roosevelt, 1858
Week of October 23
The birth of Theodore Roosevelt on October 27, 1858 presaged by one week the first ever capture of a branch of the federal government by the...