Charles Simeon was born in 1759, the youngest son of a Reading lawyer. After spending twelve years at Eton, he went on to King's College, Cambridge, in January 1779. After only three days in residence he rec... Continue Reading...

Harry Emerson Fosdick was born in 1878 at Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in 1900, then went to Union Seminary in New York until 1904. He served as minister of the First Baptist Church i... Continue Reading...

Ulrich Zwingli was born in 1484 at Wildhaus, Switzerland. He studied for two years each at Basel and Berne, and four years in Vienna, Austria. In 1502 he returned to Basel where he first encountered the New Tes... Continue Reading...

At noon on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg. This simple act started a movement which altered economic structures, undermined empires, and dras... Continue Reading...

Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) was born in Bantam, Connecticut. He was educated to hard work. His daughter, Mrs. Cheney, in her biography, says that he did the full work of a man for at least five years before he ... Continue Reading...

John Calvin (1509-1564) was born in Nyon, France. He prepared himself for a law career at the insistence of his father, but when his father died, he turned his interests towards the classics, and eventually tow... Continue Reading...

John Knox was born at Haddington, Scotland, in 1513. He was sent as a boy to the Grammar School to learn Latin and proceeded from there to the University of St. Andrews for further study. He became a priest tho... Continue Reading...

Joseph Fort Newton was born on July 21, 1876 in Decatur, Texas, the son of a former Baptist minister who had become a lawyer. He told the story of his life in a fascinating autobiography published in 1946, Rive... Continue Reading...

Charles Edward Jefferson was born at Cambridge, Ohio, on August 29, 1860, the son of Dr. Milton Jefferson, a native of Virginia, and his wife, Ella Sachet, born in the Isle of Guernsey. It was a Methodist famil... Continue Reading...