On September 5, 1651, a criminal named Obadiah Holmes was taken from his cell in Boston’s prison to receive his punishment: thirty lashes with a three-corded whip. Holmes had been alone in prison for weeks, struggling to come to terms…
In a crowded commercial neighborhood of the south Indian city of Bellary, there once stood a distillery owned and operated by a Tamil-speaking Protestant named Matthew Abraham. Matthew came from the low-ranking paraiyar community (one among so-called untouchable groups). In…
Two inns in December, one in Bethlehem of Judea, and the other in Gloucester, England. These were the humble birthplaces of Jesus and, seventeen centuries later, one of his most celebrated disciples, George Whitefield. Whitefield himself made this connection to…
Billy Graham’s life started inauspiciously enough on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 7, 1918. The guns of the Great War in Europe fell silent on November 11. As an adult, Billy Frank––as his family called him––liked…
Soon to reach our organization’s quinquagenary, we thought it an appropriate time to do some reflecting on nearly five decades of The Conference on Faith & History. Hopefully a few posts here on the CFH site will stir up online…
