Month: April 2009
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Mordecai Ham Tried to Baptize a Cat
When he was a seven year old boy in Kentucky, Mordecai F. Ham (born today, April 2, 1877, died 1961) tried to “immerse an old tomcat in a rain trough, and when the subject vented all its feline ferocity in objecting to the ‘baptism,’ little Mordecai threw him down with the disgusted explanation, ‘Go on,…
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The Best Book on Jesus’ Divinity
Many months ago, Ed Komoszewski wrote to me and asked if I might be interested in seeing a forthcoming book he had recently finished co-authoring with Rob Bowman. It was on the deity of Christ; I was interested; he sent me page proofs; I loved it. The book was Putting Jesus in His Place: The…
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David Brainerd Went to the Indians (1743)
It was on April 1, 1743, that David Brainerd (1718-1747) went out into the American wilderness to be a missionary to the Native Americans. Brainerd’s influence on world missions has been enormous, but it has all been through Jonathan Edwards’ posthumous publication of his notes and journals. As edited by Edwards, the Life of Brainerd…