Church and Biblical History

“This week [1834] marks the anniversary of when famed preacher Charles H. Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England….This week [1963] marks the anniversary of when the United States Supreme Court ruled against a public school district’s policy of reading from the Bible at the start of each day.” CPost

“Titled The Genesis Flood and authored by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris, the apologetic work seeks to argue in favor of a Young Earth Creationism perspective.” This Week in Christian History: Joan of Arc, Trinity Broadcasting, Genesis Flood Book

“It looks like we are finally getting that First-Century Mark (henceforth, FCM) fragment everyone has been talking about for years. (By the designation ‘FCM’ I am not implying that it actually dates to the first century. I don’t know the date yet. I only mean that ‘FCM’ is probably the actual papyrus that has been reported to be the first-century Mark fragment.)” ETC

“Baptist bodies had a new enemy—theological liberalism … Soon these ideas were being presented at denominational gatherings or published in denomination papers and books … By 1920, the Northern Baptists, in particular, broke out into an all-out war over theology that came to be called ‘The Fundamentalist-Modernist’ controversy.

“[T]he experience of war would transform him, launching him on a spiritual journey that culminated, years later, in his conversion to Christianity.” NReview

Scalfari says to the Pope, “Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God.

Jim Bakker’s theme park was like a Christian Disneyland. Here’s what happened to it.

March 5, 1743: “Printed in Boston and released every Saturday, The Christian History was a byproduct of the First Great Awakening, a time of large-scale spiritual revival in the British colonies of North America.” CPost

ACCC: The legacy that the late Dr. Graham has left is an evangelical movement bereft of any unyielding theological moorings.

“0: The amount of money Gutenberg made with his Bibles. A business partner sued Gutenberg for the return of money loaned to the printer to produce the Bibles. Gutenberg lost the lawsuit and had to turn over his printing equipment and half the Bibles to the partner, Johann Fust.” Door County Pulse