Alexander Crummell

Alexander Crummell

When Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was young, he was sent on an errand by an anti-slavery office in New York City. He overheard two prominent lawyers talking about a recent conversation with John Calhoun, a senator from South Carolina. In the senator’s words,...
Alexander Crummell

Padre Pio

Shia LaBeouf (age 38) is an American actor and filmmaker. He was raised with Jewish as well as Christian influences but acknowledged in 2007 that “religion never made any sense to me.” His struggle with alcohol addiction and a series of public scandals...
Alexander Crummell

Johann Starck

C.S. Lewis married for the first time in his late fifties to a fellow writer, Joy Davidman. She contracted cancer shortly after they married and died three years later. C.S. kept a diary to chronicle his grief after her death, which he never intended for publication....
Alexander Crummell

Irenaeus of Lyons

People in the church often tell me they prefer the New Testament to the Old Testament. They find themselves more in sync with the New Testament God of love than the Old Testament God of wrath. Did God have a change of heart over time, or are we talking about two...
Alexander Crummell

Peter Williams

I had never heard of the African Colonization Society (ACS) before researching the originator of today’s prayer. The ACS came into existence in America in 1816 to promote the manumission of enslaved and free blacks to West Africa. Not surprisingly, its...