Christian History Newsletters–2002
During my years at Christian History & Biography magazine (formerly Christian History), I kept up a regular flow of online newsletters, posted at the magazine’s site. Here are the linked titles of the 2002 newsletters, with the most recent coming first:
I’m Dreaming of a Victorian Christmas
An ageless story reminds us of the values the Victorians can still teach us.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted December 13, 2002
Advent: Close Encounters of a Liturgical Kind
‘Tis the season when even the free-ranging revivalist pulls up a chair to the table of historic liturgy.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted December 6, 2002
“Tell Billy Graham: ‘The Jesus People love him.’”
How evangelism’s senior statesman helped the hippies “tune in, turn on to God.” Part II of the story of Billy Graham and the origins of Christian youth culture.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted November 29, 2002
Dig that Billy Graham Cat!
How the grand old man of evangelism helped create Christian youth culture in the zoot-suit era.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted November 22, 2002
An “Ordinary Saint” in Wartime
William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war’s distracting shadow
By Chris Armstrong
Posted November 8, 2002
No Sex [Before Marriage], Please … We’re Christian
Miss America preaches a 2000-year-old message.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted October 25, 2002
Timeline of the Spirit-gifted
Before Moody, Finney, Edwards, and Mather came a long line of Catholic and Orthodox believers reputed to enjoy “the promise of the Father.”
By Chris Armstrong
Posted October 11, 2002
Do Non-Charismatics ‘Do’ Holy Spirit Baptism?
Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted October 4, 2002
9/11, History, and the True Story
Wartime authors J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis help put 9/11 in perspective.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted September 13, 2002
Evangelicalism’s Decades of Fire
New historical survey highlights twentieth-century evangelicalism’s impassioned middle decades.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted September 6, 2002
The Stakes of Public Education: A Protestant Bishop Speaks Out
Why concerned parents should read the 17th-century Moravian educational reformer Jan Amos Comenius
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 30, 2002
Spurgeon on Jabez
What history’s most prolific preacher said, in 1871, about the Prayer of Jabez.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 23, 2002
How the Early Church Saw Heaven
The first Christians had very specific ideas about who they would meet in the afterlife.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 9, 2002
Divvying up the Most Sacred Place
Emotions have historically run high as Christians have staked their claims to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 2, 2002
Legacy of an Ancient Pact
Why do Christians still chafe under restrictions in some Muslim nations? It all started with Umar.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted July 26, 2002
Good to see a Bethel Seminary Prof who blogs. I stumbled into your blog, and am glad to have done so. I won’t get to have you as a professor, as I had all the Church History courses with Dr. Travis who is one of my favorite people in my seminary experience. I’ve enjoyed your Christianity Today articles though.
Big Chris
Because I said so blog
Chris,
Thanks for stopping by & dropping a note. Yes, Dr. Travis is a treasure–and a hard teaching act to follow, from all I’ve heard. He is still teaching courses; obviously he’s a teacher at heart who will be in the classroom just as long as he can. And a wonderful conversation partner in several phone conversations and lunches as I’ve gotten "up and running" here at Bethel.
Thanks for saying you’ve enjoyed my CT stuff, too. I see a thousand ways most of those articles could have been better–many of them were written under ridiculous time pressure with many other "balls in the air." But it just felt like I _ought_ to be putting those articles out there. And folks have been generous in their responses (there’s nothing like writing for the web, eh? instant feedback.)
Peace,
Chris