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Exodus 31
[Bible]Exodus 31 is the final chapter of the instructions for building the tabernacle. God appoints Bezalel and Oholiab as craftsmen, commands Israel to keep the Sabbath as a sign of the covenant, and then gives Moses the two tablets of the testimony on Mount Sinai.
Meister Eckhart
[People]Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1328) was a medieval German Dominican friar, theologian, and preacher. He is regarded as a leading representative of "German mysticism."
Nicolaus von Zinzendorf
[People]Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) was a German count and Pietist leader. He founded the Herrnhut community, revived the Moravian Brethren, and is regarded as a leading pioneer of Protestant foreign missions.
G. K. Chesterton
[People]G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English journalist, author, and Christian apologist. He is best known for apologetic works such as Orthodoxy and for his Father Brown detective stories. In 1922 he left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Leo Tolstoy
[People]Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian novelist and religious and moral thinker, the author of *War and Peace*, *Anna Karenina*, and *Resurrection*. He interpreted the teachings of Jesus as a call to nonviolence and nonresistance, and after criticizing the church he was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901.
George MacDonald
[People]George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish Congregationalist minister and author. His works, including Phantastes and The Princess and the Goblin, have earned him recognition as a pioneer of modern fantasy literature, and he is known as the writer whom C. S. Lewis regarded as his master.
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.
Kim Chi-sun
[People]Kim Chi-sun (1899–1968) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar. Shortly after Korea's liberation in 1945, as senior pastor of Namdaemun Church in Seoul, he led the Three Million Revival Movement. He also founded Daehan Theological Seminary (now Anyang University). He is known as "the Jeremiah of Korea."
Moon Dong-hwan
[People]Moon Dong-hwan (1921–2019) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea and a theologian of Christian education. He taught at Hankuk Theological Seminary, was imprisoned for his role in the democracy movement, and served as a member of the 13th National Assembly.
Lillias Horton Underwood
[People]Lillias Horton Underwood (1851–1921) was an American medical missionary sent by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (the Northern Presbyterian Church). Arriving in Korea in 1888, she headed the women's department of Jejungwon and served as physician to Empress Myeongseong. The wife of Horace Underwood, she was also active in women's ministry and writing.
William Linton
[People]William Alderman Linton (1891–1960) was an American Southern Presbyterian educational missionary to Korea. Known in Korea as In Don (印敦), he devoted forty-eight years to school education in the Honam and Chungcheong regions and founded Daejeon Christian College, the predecessor of Hannam University.
Homer Hulbert
[People]Homer Hulbert (1863–1949) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. He came to Joseon in 1886 as an English teacher at the Yugyeong Gongwon (Royal English School). He later promoted Hangul, the Korean alphabet, engaged in journalism and writing, and supported the Korean independence movement, notably by assisting the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague in 1907.
John Nevius
[People]John Livingston Nevius (1829–1893) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian) who served in China for about forty years. The mission methods he presented during an 1890 visit to Korea became established as the "Nevius Mission Policy" and laid the foundation of the early Presbyterian Church in Korea.
English Reformation
[History]The English Reformation was a series of sixteenth-century reforms, spanning the reigns of Henry VIII through Elizabeth I, by which the church in England broke away from the authority of the pope in Rome and was established as a national church with the monarch at its head.
Yi Ja-ik
[People]Yi Ja-ik was a Korean Presbyterian minister active during the Japanese colonial period and the years immediately following liberation. Once a hired farmhand in the household of a wealthy family in Gimje, he became a minister, served three terms as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and was the first principal of Daejeon Theological Seminary.
Deuteronomy 21
[Bible]Deuteronomy 21 is a chapter of laws concerning the handling of a murder whose perpetrator is unknown, the taking of a female war captive as a wife, the inheritance rights of the firstborn, the punishment of a rebellious son, and the burial of a body hanged on a tree.
Joshua 4
[Bible]Joshua 4 records how, after Israel crossed the Jordan River, twelve men, one chosen from each tribe, carried twelve stones from the middle of the river and set them up at Gilgal as a memorial.
Aldersgate Experience
[History]The Aldersgate experience was a religious experience of John Wesley on May 24, 1738, when, at a society meeting on Aldersgate Street in London, he felt his "heart strangely warmed." It is commonly called Wesley's conversion and is regarded as the event that launched the Methodist movement.
Judges 6
[Bible]Judges 6 tells how, while Israel lay under Midianite oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared and called Gideon as a deliverer, and how Gideon tore down his father's altar of Baal and twice sought a sign with a fleece.
Missional Church
[History]The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.