The featured studies

The events themselves: what happened, where the retelling has drifted from the text, and what the scene was really like.

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Lives told from first mention to last, and the nations, families and parties around Israel and the church. These are the studies built around one life or one people; every other name of the record has a row in the register of people.

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What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.

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Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.

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The eras of the church and the revivals, each told as one span of years from before to after. Each era page names its boundary, its turning points and its hard part, and each revival page its dated line and what it left standing.

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• RThe ReformationOne monk's conscience, one printing press, and one open Bible. In a single century Scripture went from a chained Latin book to something a farmhand could read in his own language.
• GThe Great AwakeningsGod poured out His Spirit on two nations at once. Whole towns stopped talking about anything else, and the preaching moved out of the buildings and into the fields.
• KThe Korean PentecostPyongyang, Korea, at the New Year Bible study meetings in the Jangdaehyeon church.
• MThe Missionary CenturyAwakened people looked at a map and could not stay home. In a hundred and twenty years the gospel was carried, at enormous cost, to India, China, Africa, and the islands.
• RThe Revival StreamsAt the opening of the twentieth century God moved again, in Welsh mining villages, in a shabby Los Angeles building, in Korea and India, and the church rediscovered the power of Pentecost.
• AThe Azusa Street RevivalA former African Methodist Episcopal church, latterly a stable and warehouse, at 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles, California.
• FThe Fathers & the CreedsThe persecution stopped and the arguments started. In these three centuries the church put into careful words who Jesus is, and recognized which books were Scripture.
• CThe Church Under Fire & Into All the WorldTwo counts of the twentieth century's Christian dead are in circulation and they are built differently, so the page gives both. David Barrett and Todd Johnson put the figure near forty-five million in the World Christian Encyclopedia, first edition 1982 and second edition 2001. They counted every believer whose life was cut short by human hostility. That takes in whole populations killed in wars and famines where faith was one cause among several. Thomas Schirrmacher, working for the International Institute for Religious Freedom, puts the yearly figure near seven to eight thousand, counting only deaths documented case by case as killings for confessing Christ. Barrett and Johnson's own Center for the Study of Global Christianity revised the annual rate down in the third edition of 2019. The wide number and the narrow number measure two different things, and even the narrow one is large. The same century saw the church grow faster than it ever had. Both are true of the same hundred years.