Christian history
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Two remarkable Wesleys
On a Sunday afternoon in April, while staying with family in Hackney and after watching our grandchildren compete in a Park Run in London Fields, we walked to Wesley’s Chapel in City Road. The chapel was built in 1778 by...
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Matthew Henry
On October 18, 1662, in Broad Oak, a Welsh farmhouse at Iscoid, Flintshire, Matthew Henry was born. His father, Philip Henry, a well-known clergyman, was one of two thousand who resigned or were ejected from their livings because they ‘dissented’...
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The lively Oracles of God
420 years ago, in January 1604, some months after coming to England (having worn the crown of Scotland for 37 years), King James I called a conference of church people and theologians at Hampton Court Palace. The organisers of the...
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Daniel Wilson: keeping his Bishop busy
One evening, when Daniel Wilson rose from prayer after reading his bible, he said to a lady, ‘Oh! my dear child, if we could live much more in the spirit of Ephesians 4, we should be much happier. I...
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