Genius

Julian was born in Toledo about 642, of a Jewish family that had converted to Christianity — a detail his medieval biographer records without embarrassment, and one that…

Nearly everything told about Benedict's life comes from one source: the second book of the *Dialogues* of Pope Gregory the Great, written about 593, roughly fifty years after…

Howell Harris went to communion at Talgarth church in the spring of 1735 to settle his own soul and came away certain of God. Within weeks he was going house to house telling…

William Carey was a self-taught village shoemaker who kept a homemade map of the world above his bench and could not stop thinking about the nations that had never heard. Told…