James Renwick, Last Covenanter Martyr, 1668
Week of February 12
Upon the “Restoration” of King Charles II to the English monarchy in 1660, after the Commonwealth period of Oliver Cromwell, the persecution of...
The Birth of Charles Dickens, February 7, 1812
Week of February 5
For more than a century, the literary world proclaimed Charles Dickens the greatest novelist in the English language. With the deconstruction of literary standards and the moral turpitude that...
Execution of Charles I, 1649
Week of January 29
Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Tudor line of the English monarchy came to an end, and the Stuart family of Scotland inherited the English throne; James VI, Elizabeth’s first cousin...
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...