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The Evangelist Prince: the Short Life of Kaboo (Samuel Morris)
Prince Kaboo was born in 1873, son of a chief of the Kru tribe in Liberia, Africa. When only in his teens, he was captured in a skirmish with the Grebo tribe, who used him as a pawn in extracting...
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Mothering the Chinese Churches: the Courage of Norwegian missionary, Marie...
Marie Monsen (1878-1962) is a name held in high honour among Christians in China, yet she is barely known in the West, even in her native Norway. In 1900, a nationalist uprising in China, the ‘Boxer...
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“Strange, Beautiful Things”: Instances of the Miraculous in the Early...
Image: celestialgrace.org Bramwell Booth was the first Chief of Staff of the Salvation Army and succeeded his father, William, as General in 1926. A year earlier, he published his Echoes and Memories...
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Overcoming Prejudice: the Labours of African Pentecostal Pioneer Elias Letwaba
A very rare photo (retouched). Acknowledgements to Roberts Liardon Official God’s Generals The most fruitful African ethnic evangelist and church-planter in early Pentecostalism was Elias Letwaba...
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Teenagers Planting Churches: the “Hallelujah Lasses” of the Early Salvation Army
“Some of my best men are women“, said William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. The Army recognised spiritual gifting and cared nothing for gender. The Booths’ own fearsomely talented and...
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Quaker Elizabeth Fry Overcame Depression and Left Her Mark on a Nation
From 2001 to 2017, her face was on every Bank of England £5 note. But who was Elizabeth Fry? She was born into a banking family in Norwich, England, in 1780. When she was 18, she heard a Quaker...
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The Power of a Pledge : an Analysis of William Carey’s 1805 Serampore...
In 1793, William Carey, a shoemaker and subsequently Baptist pastor from Northamptonshire, UK, took his family to India as missionaries. They finally settled at Serampore in West Bengal. For seven...
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The Power of a Pledge: an Analysis of William Carey’s 1805 Serampore...
Serampore College, founded by Carey The next three sections of the 1805 covenant made by the “Serampore Trio”, William Carey, William Ward and Joshua Marshman (click here for for part 1 of this post),...
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Disability Didn’t Stop 18 Year Old James Parnell, the first Quaker Martyr
Sculpture at Colchester Quaker Meeting Hall depicting Parnell in jail Courageous faith isn’t just for special, brave people. Some of God’s heroes had to overcome serious limitations, even to get...
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Two 7th Century Apostles: Aidan in Britain and Alopen in China Compared
In AD 635, two men were sent out on apostolic missions and, in the face of great dangers, broke through with the gospel in hitherto unreached lands. Aidan was a fiery Irishman, Alopen a refined...
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