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Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Charles Stanley being elected Southern Baptist Convention president, the death of H.R. Mackintosh, and the birth of Benjamin Bosworth Smith.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Billy Bray, the pope issuing an anti-slavery decree, and Billy Graham preaching before 3,000 in Chicago.
A fire set at a historic African American church in Tennessee that had ties to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was intentionally set, according to local authorities.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include St. Ignatius of Loyola being wounded in battle, John Wesley’s “Aldersgate Experience,” and a Baptist group being launched.
We are the most distracted generation in history.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Charles Stanley and his wife divorcing, the first Catholic Church council in China, and William Carey publishing an influential pamphlet.
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, selected a papal name with a long and sometimes sordid history in the Catholic Church. Previous Pope Leos include those who engaged in crucial diplomatic efforts, served under controversy, and had ties to the prominent Medici family of Renaissance Italy. Here are seven notable past popes also named Leo.
