Robert Morrison (1782-1834) was the first Protestant missionary to China, and it was through his work that China was opened up to the Christian message in the nineteenth century.
Morrison was an evangelical Presbyterian who devoted himself to a monumental task of study and translation. A handful of people in China converted to Christianity and...
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Archbishop James Ussher, Anglican Bishop of Armagh, is remembered these days chiefly for his chronology: Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti ("Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world"), which he published in 1650.
What was his chronology? The short version is that he added together all the...
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By Phoebe Age Six.
The young artist who produced this image has described it as either "a kitty who thinks she's an otter" or "an otter who thinks she's a kitty."
Well, which is it? Even if we allow for the ambiguity of pictorial representation, it can hardly be seen as both. Indeed, this seems to be one of those cases in which the critic...
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E. Stanley Jones was born on January 3, 1884. He was an important Methodist Missionary with a big vision for world evangelism. Already as a college student at Asbury College in central Kentucky, the hand of God was on Jones: he was one of four participants in a prayer meeting (in a men's dorm during a blizzard) that turned into a campus-wide rev...
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Today in 1873 Thérèse of Lisieux was born. Some Catholics call her The Little Flower, but DOCTOR Little Flower might be more appropriate.
Born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin as the ninth child of devout parents, she became a Carmelite nun at the unusually early age of 15. She only had about a decade of life as a nun ahead of her, as s...
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Today in 1484, Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli was born, about 40 days after Martin Luther. Zwingli was a well-trained scholar (Universities of Vienna and Basel) and had the early reputation of being the best Greek student north of the Alps. But he was essentially a man of action, and when he began his preaching ministry in Zurich (on his Birthday,...
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Scriptorium Daily has been an active and successful web publication in 2008. We've added more bloggers to the team, and together we've posted with a regularity that almost justifies our name. Our hit counts, subscriptions, and e-mails suggest that lots of people are appreciating what we do here, which is nice, since so much of what we do is to am...
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