Author: Shalem John

Birth: 06-12-1861 Death: 09-05-1919 Native Place: Ratnagiri district Country : India Place of Vision: India Narayan Waman Tilak was a nineteenth-century Christian missionary and a Marathi poet. He was born into a high-caste Brahmin Hindu family in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, and was brought up in a scholarly and orthodox manner. He was fluent in Marathi, Sanskrit, and English and had excellent oratory and writing skills. Tilak, at a very young age, was counted as one of the five eminent poets known as the ‘Panch Kavi’ or ‘Kavi Panchak’ in Maharashtra. Despite the devotional life he led, Tilak found himself in…

Birth Death: 22-06-1807 :01-01-1886 Native Place: New Ipswich, New Hampshire, America Place of Vision: Assam (India), Japan We are blessed to have Bible in our hands in our mother tongue. But many out there didn’t have that privilege and many men of God came forward to meet their needs. Nathan Brown was an American Baptist missionary who was well-known for his works on the Assamese language. Born in New Ipswich, he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. At the age of 25 he, along with his wife sailed to Burma to serve as a missionary. There, for some period…

Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga turns 93 on Saturday, November 15. He is the first long-time university professor to be part of CT’s new series, Long Obedience in the Same Direction, which started one month ago with happy birthday wishes to Joni Eareckson Tada. Plantinga has been called “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God,” “arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century,” and simply “God’s philosopher.” He is one of the of the most-cited contemporary philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and is widely credited with a renaissance of Christian philosophy and the revitalization of the philosophy of religion.  “In…