Day Off Week 3 2021

I managed to do some walking and get a coffee last Tuesday but the main thing was reading the new collection of missionary biographies by David Calhoun, published by Banner. Called Swift and beautiful it contains ten biographies of missionaries covering some 400 years or so. Some like John Eliot and Brainerd are already well known, others less so. A good variety of male and female and various cultures are represented. Including at least one home missionary is good too. It is an honest account. Each biography is self-contained and is written in a stirring and helpful way. Well don Banner!

Dr Calhoun Church History Lectures

I have now listened to all 35 lectures from Dr David Calhoun on ancient and medieval church history given I the nineties at Covenant Theological Seminary. Each lecture is around 45 minutes in length and is a helpful introduction or refresher course in the main points of the history of the period from a Christian point of view. Church history is the subject rather than theology as such but there is some helpful stuff here all delivered in a warm and helpful way and well worth checking out. They are available on itunes u.