Christian History Today

The Old Fashion Revival Hour with Dr. Charles Fuller was one of the most successful Christian radio programs on the airways. It was a live broadcast that has recently been revived for the internet but for decades came from the Long Beach Memorial Auditorium in Long...

Eli Smith wanted to understand the Arabic people so much that he lived on a farm in Beirut and immersed himself in Arabic culture. Why? So he could print the Bible in Arabic. A printer by trade and trained at Yale and Andover Seminary, he eventually took over the...

When William Laud became Archbishop of Canterbury (meaning he was the head of the Church of England), it should have been no surprise because he was an astute politician who was able to “climb the church ladder” very quickly. He preached and taught the idea that the...

January 9, 710 - In medieval England, education was offered to many in Canterbury because of the efforts of St. Adrian, who died on January 9, 710. This is the same Canterbury as in the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Canterbury Tales, and Adrian made it a place of...

January 8, 1198 – Innocent III was elected Pope on January 8, 1198, and ushered in a renewed era of increased papal authority after one of the lowest occasions in the Church’s history called the Avignon papacy, when three different men claimed the papal throne. He was...

Athanasius was the bishop of Alexandria who led the fight against his fellow African Arius in what would culminate in the Council of Nicea in AD 325. After Athanasius’ successful efforts against Arius, he became the first to use the term “canon of Scripture” when he...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon accepted Jesus Christ on January 6, 1850. He was one of the most prolific writers and pastors of the 19th century, and his pastorate of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for 38 years made a huge impact. This is a picture of the church...

January 5, 1527 - This beautiful picture is of the Limmat River as it runs through Zurich, Switzerland. It was also the site of the first Anabaptist to be martyred named Felix Manz. Manz and his fellow Anabaptists disagreed with Huldrych Zwingli on infant baptism...

As the Nazis began to take more and more power in Germany during the 1930’s one of Hitler’s goals was to silence the church. Because the Lutheran church’s pastors were on the government payroll, most of them turned a blind eye to the Nazi regime, and on January 4,...

While each country in Europe had to figure out how they were going to deal with the Protestant Reformation, for Denmark, it took war. The Danish King Christian III not only won a battle against Catholic bishops but preached in the pulpits. One of his key appointments...

Baldwin of Bouillon is crowned King of Jerusalem on January 2, 1099 after his brother Godfrey dies. As a participant in the First Crusade, Baldwin the First (as he would be known) would expand the kingdom’s territories to include Acre, Beirut and Sidon.  

As the result of a series of political alliances to fortify the Papacy’s influence during the Italian Wars, Pope Julius II created the Holy League on January 1, 1511 to defend the Venetian States from France. The League began with alliances with King Ferdinand of...