TODAY WE HONOR THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM TYNDALE (1494-1536), martyred on this day, 6 October 1536. Outlaw to church and state, he was put to death simply becaus...

THERE WERE NO DENOMINATIONS. No Baptist. No pentecostal. No Presbyterians. Other than a few renegade bands (Lollards among them), there was only the Greek Ea...

A BELOVED FRIEND OF MINE, an author, has listened to the audio version of my TYNDALE book more than thirty times. Perhaps forty. Though the count changes eve
 Scripture before leaving England. The quiet country retreat of Little Sodbury Manor, his upper room overlooking distant Wales and the Severn may have given it a start—or a garret in Monmouth’s London home. An English Scripture is his only distraction, the only lash that drives him. There is a thrill beneath it all, a fr

HE WOULD LAY IN BED FOR DAYS. Do nothing. Achieve nothing. Take no food. His thoughts dark, pit-of-hell, slaveship dark. Bullied by one perfect horror of an ...

TRY, IF YOU CAN, to remember the first time you heard the Christmas story—the awe it inspired as you took every word to heart, every image, every movement of...

MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546) ALWAYS COMMANDS CENTER STAGE when it comes to the Protestant Reformation, and it is right that he does. The applause he gets is wel...