Churches Uniting in Christ (CUIC) is an ecumenical organization that brings together mainline American denominations, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. It is the successor organization to the Consultation on Church Union.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher.
The Sword of the Lord is a Christian fundamentalist, Independent Baptist biweekly newspaper.
Christianity Today is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham. It is published by Christianity Today International based in Carol Stream, Illinois. The Washington Post calls Christianity Today "evangelicalism's flagship magazine". The New York Times describes it as a "mainstream evangelical magazine". On August 4, 2022, Russell D. Moore—notable for denouncing and leaving the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention—was named the incoming Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief.
Craig Michael Conroy is an American former professional ice hockey player and the current assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). A sixth-round selection of the Montreal Canadiens at the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, Conroy played 1,009 NHL games for the Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames and Los Angeles Kings during a professional career that spanned from 1994 to 2011. Internationally, he twice played with the United States National Team – at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Thomas De Witt Talmage was a preacher, clergyman and divine in the United States who held pastorates in the Reformed Church in America and Presbyterian Church. He was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only by Henry Ward Beecher. He also preached to crowds in England. During the 1860s and 70s, Talmage was a well-known reformer in New York City and was often involved in crusades against vice and crime.
Hugh Price Hughes was a Welsh Protestant clergyman and religious reformer in the Methodist tradition. He served in multiple leadership roles in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He organised the West London Methodist Mission, a key Methodist organisation today. Recognised as one of the greatest orators of his era, Hughes also founded and edited an influential newspaper, the Methodist Times in 1885. His editorials helped convince Methodists to break their longstanding support for the Conservatives and support the more moralistic Liberal Party, which other Nonconformist Protestants were already supporting.
Red letter edition bibles are those in which the words considered as being spoken by Jesus Christ are printed in red ink.
The Christian Post is an American non-denominational, conservative, evangelical Christian online newspaper. Based in Washington, D.C., it was founded in March 2004.
The Scottish Catholic Observer was Scotland's only national Catholic newspaper, founded in 1885. It ceased publication in 2020. It featured news of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland as well as regular international church news and reports from the Vatican. For most of the twenty first century it was owned by The Catholic Herald newspaper group.
The Bowery Mission is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides hot meals, overnight shelter, and faith-based residential programs for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. Its purpose statement reads: "The Bowery Mission exists to promote the flourishing of New Yorkers overcoming homelessness and marginalization."
Albert Gleason Ruliffson was a minister and the founder in 1879 of the Bowery Mission in Manhattan's Bowery neighborhood. He served as President of its Board of Trustees and was active in its work until September, 1895.
The Ceylon Chronicle was a short-lived English-language newspaper in Ceylon. The newspaper started on 3 May 1837 with Rev. Samuel Owen Glenie as editor. Rev. Glenie was the Anglican Colonial Chaplain of St. Paul's Church and later Archdeacon of Colombo. Although owned privately by a group of civil servants, the newspaper took a pro-government stance and had the support of senior government officials. Governor Robert Wilmot-Horton, Treasurer Temple, Postmaster General George Lee, Acting Chief Justice Sergeant Rough, Auditor General Henry Marshall and Proctor Henry Staples all wrote for the newspaper. The Ceylon Chronicle was a counter-weight to The Observer and Commercial Advertiser which opposed the government.
Arthur Talmage Abernethy was a writer, theologian, and poet. He pastored several churches, contributed articles and poems to newspapers around the United States, and was named by Governor R. Gregg Cherry as the first North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1948.
Claude Marie Joseph Dupuy was a French Catholic priest who became Archbishop of Albi, which encompasses the department of Tarn in southern France. He held office at a time of social unrest and declining interest in the priesthood. In 1966 he was an episcopal member of the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control. After his retirement in 1974 due to health problems he returned his award of the Legion of Honour in protest against the law on abortion.
Louis Klopsch was a German-American journalist, publisher, and fundraiser for charitable causes. He originated red letter editions of the Bible.
Mayesville Industrial and Educational Institute was a school for African-American children in Mayesville, South Carolina. It was established and run by Emma Jane Wilson, an African American.
William Newton Hartshorn was a Baptist leader from the United States who travelled the world and became a millionaire advocating Sunday school and leading the "Sabbath army". He was born in Greenville, New Hampshire. He lived in Boston. He led a large tour and convention through Palestine and published an account of the journey with Louis Klopsch. He was an executive officer at the Priscilla Publishing Company in Boston.
Mont Lawn Camp is a 200-acre summer camp located in the Pocono Mountains in Bushkill, Pennsylvania. Every summer it serves as a sleep-away camp for hundreds of children from underserved neighborhoods in the New York metro area and Philadelphia.
Minneapolis Veckoblad was a Swedish-language newspaper for Mission Friends published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It was founded in 1884 by preacher Erik August Skogsbergh under the name Svenska kristna härolden but was published under the new name from October 1887 to February 1906. In 1890 a corporation took over the publication of the newspaper. In 1906, its name was changed to Veckobladet. Skogsbergh served as the newspaper's editor for some time; Andrew Johnson, K. Newquist, and Erik Dahlhielm would later be its editors. Minneapolis Veckoblad described itself as a "Christian and political newspaper". In 1904, it was described as "one of the most widely distributed Swedish newspapers in America."
