The Heritage Blog

From his death on February 4, 1761, to the American Civil War (1861-65), the sermons of Samuel Davies were the most widely sold and most eagerly read sermons on both sides of the Atlantic. Things ch … read more

“Somewhere Phillis Wheatley is smiling on Amanda Gorman,” someone tweeted after Gorman’s recitation of her poem at Joe Biden’s inaugural speech. “The poet Phillis Wheatley would be proud,” tweeted an … read more

William Perkins was born in 1558 to Thomas and Hannah Perkins in the village of Marston Jabbett, in Bulkington parish, Warwickshire. As a youth, he indulged in recklessness, profanity, and drunkennes … read more

John Knox was born in Scotland in about 1514. So he was only about three years old when the Protestant Reformation started in Germany in 1517. Converted to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism in 154 … read more