For All the Saints

Like much of the American South, the city Memphis in western Tennessee suffered periodic epidemics of yellow fever.

by Henry William Pickersgill, oil on canvas, 1821 Hannah More was a teacher, a playwright and poet who moved in David Garrick’s and Samuel Johnson’s cultural and intellectual circles, and later in her life an Evangelical Anglican writer on political, mora…

Born in 1794 in Berkshire, Allen Francis Gardiner embarked on a naval career that in time saw him return to faith in Jesus Christ.

Birinus, also called Birin or Berin, was the first bishop of Dorchester.

Robert Wolfall, a priest of the Church of England and “a learned man”, was appointed by Queen Elizabeth the First as “Minister and Preacher” to Martin Frobisher’s third expedition to Arctic waters in search of a Northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean and…

New Guinea, the second largest island in the world, was on of the main frontiers of Christian mission in the twentieth century because of the difficult terrain and the cultural diversity of its peoples, who speak some 500 distinct languages.

The Gospel first came to the people of northern England in 627, when Edwin, king of Northumbria, was converted by a mission from Canterbury led by Paulinus, who became the first Bishop of York.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 12, 1830, Charles Grafton became an ardent supporter of Tractarianism within the Protestant Episcopal Church and wider Anglicanism.

Saint John the Baptist, the Forerunner of the Messiah, preceded Jesus both in his birth and in his death.

Augustine, arguably the greatest theologian in the history of the Western Church, was born in 354 at Tagaste in North Africa.