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Eric Liddell

Eric Liddell

Langdon Gilkey wrote about his experiences at a prisoner of war camp in China during World War II. His book Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure is hardly a flattering portrait of humanity. Not only were the guards cruel, but prisoner pettiness...
Eric Liddell

Ambrose of Milan

Church fights aren’t pretty.  I can attest to it from personal experience! A major dispute broke out in 340 AD following the death of the bishop of Milan. There were two factions: those who affirmed Christ’s divinity (orthodox Christians) and those who opposed...
Eric Liddell

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1909-1945) is one of my heroes. For real! The courageous witness of this twentieth century Christian martyr both inspires and humbles me. Dietrich left Germany at age twenty-three for a year of post-graduate theological studies at Union...
Eric Liddell

Peter Marshall

He had already been dead for thirty years, yet I heard plenty of stories about Peter Marshall (1902-1949) when I came to serve a church in the Washington, DC area. He was the gold standard for Presbyterian ministers back in the day. I used to frequent his church and...
Eric Liddell

Roger Hurding

It is estimated that twenty percent of the world’s population live with chronic pain.  You may include yourself in this number of persistent pain sufferers.Roger Hurding (1934-2019) lived most of his life with chronic pain. He became diabetic in his youth,...