“Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likeable.” With that as his wonderful opening line, Paul Johnson, the famous historian and author of Modern Times, sets out to do the impossible: craft a readable, honest, interesting, quick-paced, [...]
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A Forgotten Voice
February 9, 2010 – 6:07 am
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen was born in 1691 in West Friesland and died in New Jersey in 1747. He received ordination in the Dutch Reformed Church at the age of twenty-six and served for two years in his native land. At twenty-eight he was approached by Classis Amsterdam to see if he was willing to take [...]
