Category: People

by alec.satin.com
Last updated on December 3, 2020

Tyndale’s translation of the Bible was the fulcrum on which balanced the entire English Reformation. He held together the framework of spiritual advancement in England during the sixteenth century.

by Biography Online

Martin Luther King Jr was one of America’s most influential civil rights activists. His passionate, but non-violent protests, helped to raise awareness of racial inequalities in America, leading to significant political change.

by Bright Side

Sometimes just a little kindness is enough to change somebody’s life. Any good deed – from real acts of bravery to simple care – makes our world a wonderful place to live in.

by Rob Amberg
April 17, 2014

To help his Jewish workers and colleagues, Leitz quietly established what has become known among historians of the Holocaust as “the Leica Freedom Train,” a covert means of allowing Jews to leave Germany in the guise of Leitz employees being assigned overseas.

by Tim Challies
April 2, 2014

Peale’s most successful by far was The Power of Positive Thinking. This book was written to demonstrate that you do not need to be defeated by anything, that you can have peace of mind, improved health, and a never-ceasing flow of energy. In short, that your life can be fully of joy and satisfaction.

by ABC

This amazing video reveals that Dominique Moceanu has a secret sister, one given up for adoption without Moceanu ever knowing when Dominique was six years old. Her name is Jennifer, and – even without legs – she became a power tumbler, volleyball player, and aerial performer.

by Dr. David R. Reagan

In  April,  Treasury  Secretary  Jacob  J.  Lew,  announced  that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face ofthe  new  $20  bill.  At the end of the century, a survey named her as one of the most famous civilians in American history before the Civil War – third only to Betsy Ross and Paul Revere.

by Tottministries
September 2006

So how should we view Mr. Lewis? His ability to cut through the intellectual clouds and offer insightful analysis of human nature and our relationship with God perhaps has no equal. On the other hand, he was no evangelical. His theology is deficient at best in the key areas of Scripture and salvation. He believed in neither sola fide nor sola scriptura, the two battle cries of the Reformation. Those who read him must keep these things in mind, filter his teaching through the grid of Scripture and hold him to the same standards that we are to hold all others.

by Rebecca Macatee
July 1, 2015

Sir Nicholas Winton, a British man who helped save hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War II, has passed away at the age of 106. Winton, nicknamed the “British Schindler,” remained quiet for nearly half a century about his acts of heroism, including his role in organizing trains to rescue 669 children bound for Nazi concentration camps.

by ZAR

Emily HobhouseAlthough she was a British citizen, Emily Hobhouse has become an honorary South African through her selfless and courageous actions, which exposed the inhumanity of concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902). She was raised in the tiny village of St. Ive near Liskeard in East Cornwall. Her father was rector of the Anglican church for fifty-one years.