The words “Another year older? Fake news!” were written in cursive on top of my vanilla birthday cake topped with extra rainbow sprinkles. While enjoying a slice, I noticed a new email. At a glance, I ...
The December 17 birthday of early Georgia settler and Bethesda founder George Whitefield echoes through history in a particularly Savannahian way. Born in 1714 in Gloucester, England, Whitefield was ...
It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced in the center of downtown Savannah, Georgia. In stark contrast, a nondescript gazebo dedicated to George ...
(RNS) Future evangelists -- most notably Billy Graham -- followed a pattern set by Whitefield of making the most of the media available in their time. (RNS) If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George ...
A new biography helps us come to terms with the unsavory side of the great revivalist’s mission to America. On the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, there sits a statue of one of the school’s ...
"Works! Works! A man get to heaven by works! I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!" With these words the Rev. George Whitefield summed up his teachings during a two-hour ...
This month marks the tricentennial of the birth of the most famous man in America before the Revolution. George Whitefield, born on Dec. 16, 1714, was a Church of England minister who led the Great ...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD: AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL FOUNDING FATHER By Thomas S. Kidd Yale University Press, $38, 344 pages In the fall of 1764, George Whitefield, itinerant evangelical preacher, gave a ...
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