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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
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
1903 . . . Baptism of Indian Warrior Geronimo
1903 . . . Sundar Singh's Vision of Christ
1904 . . . Let There Be Peace Between Argentina and Chile
1904 . . . Althea Brown Feared for Her Life
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 . . . 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
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
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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