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Jim Elliot
[People]Jim Elliot (1927–1956) was an American Protestant missionary. In 1956 he and four fellow missionaries were killed in Ecuador while attempting to bring the gospel to the Waorani people (formerly called the "Auca").
Martin Luther King Jr.
[People]Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African American civil rights movement. He led a nonviolent movement to end racial discrimination in the United States and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Genesis 46
[Bible]Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.
Exodus 19
[Bible]In the third month after the Exodus, Israel arrives in the Wilderness of Sinai and camps before Mount Sinai. God proposes a covenant, and the people accept it. After the people consecrate themselves for two days, God descends upon the mountain on the third day.
Saint Patrick
[People]Saint Patrick (Patricius, 5th century) was a missionary and bishop from Roman Britannia who brought Christianity to Ireland. He is the patron saint of Ireland and is commemorated on March 17.
Charlemagne
[People]Charlemagne (born 742 or c. 747–748; died 814) was king of the Franks. On Christmas Day 800 he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III, and he is regarded as the figure who established the framework of politics, the church, and learning in medieval Western Europe.
John of the Cross
[People]John of the Cross (1542–1591) was a Spanish Carmelite friar, mystic, and poet. With Teresa of Ávila, he founded the Discalced Carmelites, and he wrote spiritual classics including The Dark Night.
Francis Collins
[People]Francis Collins (born 1950) is an American geneticist and physician. He led the Human Genome Project and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He promoted theistic evolution through his book *The Language of God* and through the BioLogos Foundation, which he founded.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
[People]Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American author and abolitionist, best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a novel that indicted slavery. The daughter of the Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher, she became an Episcopalian later in life.
Joel Osteen
[People]Joel Osteen (born 1963) is an American television preacher and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, Texas. He is the author of *Your Best Life Now*, which also became widely known in Korea through its Korean translation.
Paek Hong-jun
[People]Paek Hong-jun (1848–1893) was an early Korean Protestant from Uiju, North Pyongan Province. Baptized in Manchuria by a Scottish Presbyterian missionary, he was among the first Koreans to receive Protestant baptism, and he spread the gospel throughout the Uiju region as a colporteur and evangelist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
[People]J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English philologist and author best known for *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings*. A devout Roman Catholic, he is known for having influenced C. S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity.
Josh McDowell
[People]Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He became widely known through his 1972 book Evidence That Demands a Verdict and lectured at universities around the world as a speaker with Campus Crusade for Christ.
Rick Warren
[People]Rick Warren (1954– ) is an American evangelical pastor and author. He founded Saddleback Church in California in 1980 and wrote *The Purpose Driven Church* and *The Purpose Driven Life*.
Song Chang-geun
[People]Song Chang-geun (宋昌根, 1898–?), known by the pen name Manu (晩雨), was a Korean Presbyterian minister and theologian. He led the founding of Chosun Theological Seminary (now Hanshin University) and was abducted to North Korea during the Korean War.
William Junkin
[People]William Junkin (1865–1908; Korean name Jeon Wi-ryeom) was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary who, beginning in the 1890s, founded churches and schools in Gunsan and Jeonju and laid the foundation for Protestant missions in the Honam region of Korea.
Andrew Kim Taegon
[People]Andrew Kim Taegon (1821–1846) was a Catholic priest of the late Joseon period in Korea. In 1845 he became the first Korean to be ordained a Catholic priest, and in 1846 he was executed at Saenamteo during the Byeongo Persecution. His baptismal name was Andrew.
Sherwood Hall
[People]Sherwood Hall (1893–1991) was a Canadian Methodist medical missionary born in Seoul. He founded a tuberculosis sanatorium in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, and in 1932 issued Korea's first Christmas seals.
1 Samuel 10
[Bible]1 Samuel 10 recounts how Samuel privately anoints Saul and foretells three signs, after which Saul is publicly chosen as king before all the people at Mizpeh.
Augustinians
[History]The Augustinians are a Catholic mendicant order that follows the Rule of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. The order was formed in 1256, when several groups of hermits were united into a single body. It is also known as the order to which Martin Luther belonged as a friar before the Reformation.