The JESUS film: how a 1979 movie based on Luke became the most translated film ever
Released in 1979, the JESUS film followed the Gospel of Luke closely. Backed by Campus Crusade for Christ, it was dubbed into well over a thousand…
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Billy Graham’s 1957 New York crusade: sixteen weeks at Madison Square Garden
In 1957, Billy Graham held a crusade in New York that ran for sixteen weeks, filling Madison Square Garden night after night and drawing a huge…
The Catholic return to Elmina in 1880: how two SMA priests restarted the church in Ghana
Catholic worship first came to the Gold Coast with the Portuguese at Elmina in the fifteenth century but ended after the Dutch took the castle. In…
The Azusa Street Revival: how a Los Angeles mission led by William Seymour sparked global Pentecostalism
In 1906, a small congregation led by William J. Seymour, a Black preacher and son of former slaves, began meeting at 312 Azusa Street in Los…
Moody and Sankey: the preacher and the singer who filled halls on two continents
Dwight L. Moody, a former shoe salesman, and Ira D. Sankey, a singer from Pennsylvania, led huge evangelistic campaigns in America and Britain in the 1870s.…
Benson Idahosa: the Benin City evangelist who shaped Nigerian Pentecostalism
Benson Idahosa founded the Church of God Mission International in Benin City and became one of Africa's most influential Pentecostal leaders. He trained many pastors who…
Mary Slessor: the Scottish mill girl who became “Mother of All the Peoples” in Calabar
Mary Slessor, a former mill worker from Dundee, arrived in Calabar in 1876 as a missionary. She lived among the Efik and Okoyong people, campaigned against…
“Blest Be the Tie That Binds”: the hymn a pastor wrote after deciding not to leave
John Fawcett, a Baptist pastor in a poor Yorkshire village, accepted a call to a large London church, then changed his mind as his congregation wept.…
“Jesus, Lover of My Soul”: Charles Wesley’s hymn of refuge in the storm
Charles Wesley published "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" in 1740, two years after his conversion. Its images of a storm, a refuge and a fountain of…
Musama Disco Christo Church: the Ghanaian church founded by a prophet in 1922
Musama Disco Christo Church was founded in 1922 by Joseph William Egyanka Appiah, a Methodist catechist in the Gold Coast who took the name Jemisimiham Jehu-Appiah.…