Christian History (1000)
  1. The year was 2000. We remember Welsh priest and poet, R.S. Thomas. The reading is from Thomas, "The Coming."
  2. The year was 1734, and Pastor George Weiss led the first service of the Schwenkfelders in America. The reading is "The Magdalene's Mistake" by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell.
  3. The year was 1950. We remember the oldest and longest-running radio drama made its debut, "Unshackled!" The reading is from Ernesto Cardenal, "Behind the Monastery."
  4. The year was 1566. We remember a tempestuous theologian, Johann Agricola. The reading is a stanza from the hymn “Lord Hear the Voice of My Complaint” by Agricola.
  5. The year was 1795. We remember the founding of the Order of the Orange. The reading is "Adveniat Regnum Tuum" by Katharine Tynan.
  6. The year was 1982 when Lutheran pastor Christian Führer held the first of his “prayers for peace” meetings. The reading is a poem from A.K. Tolstoy, “A Peal of Bells.”
  7. The year was 1692. We remember Giles Corey, the patron saint of those afflicted by church politics. The reading is an excerpt from Dr. Rod Rosenbladt, “The Gospel Broken by the Church.”
  8. The year was 1884. We remember Irish born American and convict turned missionary Jerry McCauley. The reading is an excerpt from “The Missionary” by Charlotte Bronte.
  9. The year was 1721, and we remember theologian Samuel Hopkins. The reading is the poem "Slavery" by Hannah More.
  10. The year was 1882 and we remember E.B. Pusey. The reading is from Pusey, writing on Christian contentment.
  11. The year was 1824 and we remember apologist for the papacy and Ultramontanist Joseph Hergenröther. The reading is from Robert Farrar Capon, an excerpt from his “The Astonished Heart.”
  12. The year was 1927 and Bob Jones College, later Bob Jones University, was founded. The reading is a poem by Afua Kuma, “Chief Who Listens to the Poor."
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