Tag: history
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Melville B. Cox: Planting an Unfinished Work
Saint for Friday, September 25, 2026Melville Beveridge Cox, MethodistNovember 9, 1799–July 21, 1833 Melville B. Cox knew grief, illness, and interrupted plans. Born near Hallowell, Maine, in 1799, he entered the New England Methodist Conference as an itinerant preacher in 1822. Tuberculosis forced him to stop preaching in 1825. He moved to Baltimore, worked in…
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Saints — September 18, 2026
Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) Lord Jesus Christ, Teach Me to See Come sit with me on the front porch for a while. This may not be the most comfortable conversation we have had. Robert Lewis Dabney was a remarkable man in many ways. Born in Virginia in 1820, he became a Presbyterian minister, theologian, professor,…
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What Does the Past Tell Us About the Present?
Life Lessons Wednesday, August 12, 2026 What was your favorite subject in school? I loved history. There is something about the past that speaks to us in the present. I studied American History, Mississippi History, World History, and Ancient History. I even took a course in Church History. History tells us something about how we…
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Places That Shape Us: Where History Became Personal
Today our nation marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, the birth of what became the United States of America. Over the years, I have traveled through 46 of the continental United States. Only Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, and South Dakota remain unseen. Every state has offered something worth…
