1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...

Today we travel to Leicester in England where Thomas Cook organised his first rail excursion for a day out to Loughborough. 500 people...

It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...

Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...

Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...

Samuel Sharpe was hanged today in Jamaica for his role in organising as slave uprising referred to by historians as 'The Baptist War'. ...

The Book of Revelation and its prophesies about the end times has been a favourite theme for conspiracy theorists. Particularly the Sign...

Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...

Today in 1946 in Madras, India controversial Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was born. He inspired a generation of apologists and...

Today we remember the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards who died today in 1758. His legacy is significant and the ripples from his...

Today we remember how in 1860 the Taiping rebels succeeded in taking the city of Hangzhou in China, in what would become the bloodiest...

Today in 1861 the famous Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon moved his growing congregation to the Metropolitan Tabernacle in...

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1812 and travel to West Bengal in India. Today a fire broke out in missionary...

Today in 1969, James A Ray confessed to the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King. He had been arrested two months after...

Today in 1631 on Rhode Island the first Baptist church in America was established by Roger Williams, a Puritan minister born in London. ...

The What Would Jesus Do movement has been an effective tool in youth work, and recently commercialised and also widely lampooned as a...

Today we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...

Today Christians around the world are preparing to enter Lent with one last blowout. Today we look at the traditions that mark this...

On Jan 1 1773, the Anglican priest and former slave trader, John Newton, was delivering his new year sermon in the town of Olney,...