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John Byrom was born at Kersal Cell, near Manchester, UK on February 29, 1692. He was born the younger son of a prosperous merchant.
Enjoying the benefits of a prosperous family he pursued education at Trinity College, Cambridge and became a fellow in 1714.
He also took to poetry while still a student, penning “Colin to [...]

Dr Albert Barnes died on December 24, 1870, in West Philadelphia, USA, at the age of 72.
Barnes was born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798 and graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823.
His ordination as a Presbyterian minister came in 1825, in Elizabethtown, New [...]

My recent post on the topic of The Right To Speak discussed the word ‘jurisdiction’. I want to explore that word a little more today, making a Logophile posting on this significant term. I pointed out there that the expression “the right to speak” means the same as the word “jurisdiction”.
Morphology of Jurisdiction
I pointed out [...]

Jean Francois Campollion was born in France, on December 23, 1790.
In his early life he took a special interest in Hebrew, Arabic and Coptic. When he was nine years-old a discovery took place by some of Napoleon’s soldiers at the mouth of the western arm of the Nile; a large slab of black granite (3′9″ [...]

Ann Hasseltine was born in Massachusetts, USA, on December 22, 1789 and became America’s first woman to go overseas as a missionary.
Converted at the age of 17, “Nancy” (as she was known) soon found herself the centre of attention from the local theological students at Andover Theological Seminary who congregated at her parents’ home.
The Life [...]

While reviewing a report on teen sexual behaviour I noted a comment that should sound a serious warning to the modern church. The comment points out that the church is irrelevant in impacting the behaviour of teens.
Oh, and I don’t mean it is irrelevant to all those people who have never been to church, I [...]

Robert Moffat was born in East Lothian, Scotland, to staunch Calvinistic parents on December 21, 1795. His mother read missionary stories to her children when they were young and that made an indelible impression on young Robert.
With few academic possibilities and living near a shipping port Robert went to sea as a lad and endured [...]

Dr David Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Wales, on December 20, 1899, to be one of three boys in a Welsh Calvanist Methodist family.
When he was ten a fire destroyed the family home and permanently impacted the family finances. This gave young David a serious approach to life, such that he said, “I never had [...]

Because of my fascination with the true nature of Freedom (Liberty) I was drawn to the emphasis given to this topic in the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. What I find is that the secular notion of ‘liberty’ as found in the Enlightenment and the Revolution, and also celebrated in America’s Statue of Liberty (given [...]

Horatius Bonar was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on December 19, 1808. from a long line of Presbyterian ministers. His brother Andrew Bonar was a famous Bible commentator. Horatius and his brothers studied at the University of Edinburgh under Thomas Chalmers, and took part in “the Great Disruption” in 1843 that led to the founding of [...]