This is our full list of representative Christians through the centuries.

It’s a list that will certainly grow, as we work through more stories and as we add contemporary Christians who go onto be part of the great cloud of witnesses that is referred to in Scripture. To read more about any of the Christians below, please click on their image. you can then move back and forth via the post links below each article or return to searching with links in the header and footer. The order has a bit of theology embedded in it. We choose with the birth day or year of the person, not their death day. We understand that God knit us together and called us well before we returned a call to him, that he knew us even when we didn’t fully know him. We trust the multiple ways to search will alleviate any misgivings you might find in the order.

Paul of Tarsus

100

Justin Martyr

155

Tertullian of Carthage

274

Alban

296

Athanasius of Alexandria

347

John Chrysostom

354

Augustine of Hippo

387

Patrick

480

Benedict of Nursia

560

Isidore of Seville

675

Venerable Bede

1033

Anselm of Canterbury

1090

Bernard of Clairvaux

1098

Hildegard of Bingen

1181

Francis of Assisi

1225

Thomas Aquinas

1265

Dante Alighieri

1320

John Wycliffe

1347

Catherine of Siena

1369

Jan Hus

1412

Joan of Arc

1478

Thomas More

1483

Martin Luther

1484

Ulrich Zwingli

1489

Thomas Cranmer

1491

Ignatius of Loyola

1509

John Calvin

1593

George Herbert

1662

Samuel Wesley

1703

Jonathan Edwards

1703

John Wesley

1707

Charles Wesley

1711

John Francis Wade

1714

George Whitefield

1716

George Taylor

1719

James Smith

1724

Isaac Backus

1725

John Newton

1725

John Morton

1728

Caesar Rodney

1733

George Read

1734

Thomas McKean

1734

Robert Morris

1739

George Clymer

1742

Manasseh Cutler

1742

James Wilson

1745

Francis Asbury

1745

Benjamin Rush

1746

Benjamin Rush

1755

Richard Furman

1759

William Wilberforce

1759

Charles Simeon

1760

Richard Allen

1761

Willam Carey

1770

William Wordsworth

1773

Joseph Mohr

1792

John Henry Hopkins

1792

Charles Finney

1797

Sojourner Truth

1801

John Henry Newman

1804

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

1805

George Mueller

1806

James Finn

1807

Phoebe Palmer

1813

Søren Kierkegaard

1813

Henry Ward Beecher

1813

David Livingstone

1819

Alexander Crummell

1820

Florence Nightingale

1820

Fanny Crosby

1821

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1822

Harriet Tubman

1828

Andrew Murray

1828

Horatio Spafford

1829

William Booth

1830

Christina Rossetti

1837

D.L. Moody

1840

Lottie Moon

1848

Mary Slessor

1850

Annie Armstrong

1856

Charles H. Gabriel

1857

Milton Hershey

1860

C.T. Studd

1860

Anton Chekhov

1862

Billy Sunday

1866

Annie Johnson Flint

1870

William Seymour

1871

John Wesley Work Jr.

1874

Oswald Chambers

1874

Nikolai Berdyaev

1874

G.K. Chesterton

1878

Frank Buchman

1886

Karl Barth

1886

Paul Tillich

1887

Charles E. Fuller

1887

Lillian Hunt Trasher

1888

T.S. Eliot

1891

William F. Albright

1892

Reinhold Niebuhr

1892

Corrie ten Boom

1892

J.R.R. Tolkien

1893

Dorothy L. Sayers

1897

Dorothy Day

1897

A.W. Tozer

1898

C.S. Lewis

1899

Thomas A. Dorsey

1902

Kyrillos VI

1903

Malcolm Muggeridge

1904

Karl Rahner

1905

Harold J. Ockenga

1906

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1909

Simone Weil

1910

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

1911

Marshall McLuhan

1912

Jacques Ellul

1914

Robert Pierce

1915

Thomas Merton

1916

Walker Percy

1917

Louis Zamperini

1917

Bob Lindsey

1918

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918

Billy Graham

1920

Ruth Graham

1920

John Paul II

1920

P.D. James

1921

Truett Cathy

1921

John Stott

1925

Flannery O’Connor

1926

Allan Sandage

1926

Ivan Illich

1926

Elizabeth Alexandra

1927

Jim Elliot

1932

Johnny Cash

1932

Eugene Peterson

1933

Jerry Falwell

1934

Brennan Manning

1934

John Wimber

1944

Jack Heaslip

1953

Jean Donovan

1953

Keith Green

1955

Rick Elias

1955

John Chacha

1955

Rich Mullins

1987

Larry Norman

Elizabeth Alexandra

Anglican

April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022

By Zach Kincaid

Queen Elizabeth II had a strong Christian faith, evident throughout her life in her words and actions. As well as her formal role as ‘Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England’, which came with monarchy, her personal faith was evident even before she was crowned. ‘Pray for me … that…

Jim Elliot

Plymouth Brethren

October 8, 1927 - January 8, 1956

By Zach Kincaid

Phillip James “Jim” Elliot (1927-1956), evangelical missionary martyr, was born in Portland, Oregon, one of four children born to a Plymouth Brethren evangelist and his wife, a chiropractor. A pious and forthright Christian from his grade school days onward, he enrolled at Wheaton College in Illinois in 1945. A leader in the school’s missionary league,…

Johnny Cash

Christian

February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003

By Zach Kincaid

On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash, considered by many one of the 20th century’s most influential musicians, performed two shows inside California’s Folsom Prison. It was an appropriate choice for a performer known as a bit of an outlaw, recognized with a fondness for dark clothing that earned him the nickname “The Man in Black.”…

Eugene Peterson

Presbyterian

November 6, 1932 - October 22, 2018

By Zach Kincaid

Eugene Peterson is one of the best known theologians of our time. Most famous for penning The Message, a contemporary rendering of the Bible, he is also author of many popular books such as A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. With the release of his memoir, The Pastor, Peterson has begun reflecting on life and the ways in which…

Jerry Falwell

Southern Baptist

August 11, 1933 - May 15, 2007

By Zach Kincaid

In June of 1956, at the age of 22, Jerry Falwell started Thomas Road Baptist Church in his hometown of Lynchburg, Va., with 35 members. Also in 1956, Falwell began the “Old Time Gospel Hour,” a nationally syndicated radio and television ministry that has led millions to Christ. In 1967, Falwell implemented his vision to…

Brennan Manning

Catholic

April 27, 1934 - April 12, 2013

By Zach Kincaid

“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.” Richard Francis Xavier Manning, better known to legions of faithful readers as author, speaker, and contemplative Brennan Manning, for whom grace was irresistible, completed his earthly…

John Wimber

Vineyard Christian Fellowship

February 25, 1934 - November 17, 1997

By Zach Kincaid

John Richard Wimber was born on February 25, 1934 in Peoria, Illinois and was raised in a non-Christian home. He loved music and by his early twenties, he was involved in the music industry. He was best known for helping to form the group “The Righteous Brothers” where he played keyboards. In 1963 his life…

Jack Heaslip

Anglican

February 21, 1944 - February 21, 2015

By Zach Kincaid

On Wednesday, February 25, members of the band U2 gathered at St. Mary’s Church outside of Dublin in order to observe the passing of the Rev. Jack Heaslip, the band’s long time friend and “traveling pastor.” The 71-year-old Anglican priest passed away after a lengthy battle with motor neuron disease. Heaslip’s pivotal spiritual guidance and…

Jean Donovan

Catholic

April 10, 1953 - December 2, 1980

By Zach Kincaid

Jean Donovan was born on April 10, 1953. She was the younger of two children and raised in an upper middle class family in Westport, Connecticut. Her father, Raymond, was an executive engineer, and later chief of design, at the nearby Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Technologies, a large defense contractor for the U.S….

Keith Green

Vineyard Christian Fellowship

October 21, 1953 - July 28, 1982

By Zach Kincaid

When musician Keith Green died in a plane crash on July 28, 1982, the world lost a special man whose heart was aflame with the gospel message. Before his untimely end, Green took the world on his seven-year spiritual journey. He held back nothing and was consumed with loving Christ and the church. On October…