by Bill Farley | Nov 20, 2023 | biography, book review
I READ A LOT OF BOOKS. Some I can recommend, and some I cannot. Here, however, are some recommended titles from recent months. Thomas Jefferson, A Biography of Spirit and Flesh by Thomas Kidd. When I find a historian that writes well, I read more of their books. They...
by Bill Farley | Aug 31, 2021 | biography, book review, Uncategorized
HERE ARE SOME BOOKS that I have read in recent months. They are about adventurers, military heroes, thinking critically, and crucial doctrines, but they all share several things in common. First, they are interesting. Second, they are well-written, and third, they...
by Bill Farley | Nov 19, 2020 | biography
IN 1992 JUDY AND I VISITED FLORENCE, ITALY. In the central square, unchanged for centuries, we found a small brass plaque embedded in the pavement. It was dedicated to Girolamo Savonarola, one of the cities past heroes. Knowing quite a bit about this man, I was deeply...
by Bill Farley | Dec 12, 2019 | biography, Christian Ministry, church history, evangelism
Fiery Evangelist of Wales WALES IS OFTEN CALLED THE LAND OF REVIVALS. It is called that because of the number and frequency of its spiritual visitations. Wales first experience of revival was the Great Awakening in 1740-42. The prominent leader in that work was the...
by Bill Farley | Dec 9, 2019 | biography, church history
IN 1739 A THIN, FIVE FOOT TWO, thirty-six year old Anglican priest mounted a small eminence in a brickyard just outside the city of Bristol, England. At a time when less than 1% of English men had a college degree, he was an Oxford graduate, and he had been trained to...
by Bill Farley | Nov 14, 2019 | biography, church history, Puritanism, Puritans
IN THE 1660’S CHARLES II, KING OF ENGLAND, asked John Owen (1616-83) why he went to hear the preaching of an uneducated tinker (an old name for a blacksmith)? The King was amazed that a man of Owen’s prominence would stoop to associate with a tinker. Owen...