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

George Read

Episcopal

September 18, 1733 - September 21, 1798

By Tim Scheiderer

by Tim Scheiderer George Read is a founding father not known by many today, but during his lifetime, he was a man known by many for his integrity and generosity. He gave not only his time, but also his money to the creation of the new republic. He was also the brother-in-law of fellow signer,…

Thomas McKean

Presbyterian

March 19, 1734 - June 24, 1817

By Tim Scheiderer

The Irish are known to be blunt and, at times, feisty folk. And the Scottish are known as a hearty people, able to persevere through hardship. For Thomas McKean, these traits certainly rang true. The son of Irish and Scottish ancestry was surprisingly a successful lawyer during the American Revolutionary period. The wonderment was present…

Robert Morris

Anglican

January 20, 1734 - May 8, 1806

By Tim Scheiderer

Robert Morris, known as the financier of the American Revolution, was born on January 20, 1734 in Liverpool, England. He would become one of the two wealthiest signers of the Declaration of Independence. His father, a tobacco merchant, came to Maryland in 1738 representing a English mercantile firm. He possessed genius and savvy that brought…

George Clymer

Quaker

March 16, 1739 - January 23, 1813

By Tim Scheiderer

In the fall of 1682, George Fitzwater and his family landed at New Castle, Delaware, after a two-month voyage across the Atlantic. They had joined William Penn and others aboard the ship Welcome, a small cargo vessel, 150 feet in length maximum. In cramped conditions, the roughly 100 future settlers of the Pennsylvania colony survived on salted…

James Wilson

Presbyterian

September 14, 1742 - August 28, 1798

By Tim Scheiderer

James Wilson was born on September 14, 1742, into a family of tenant farmers who lived near Cupar, Scotland. His father worked tirelessly, but the Scottish soil refused to yield large harvests. Hence, after the rent was paid, there was little left over to fill the family’s coffers. As well, the Wilson’s dwellings were cramped…

Manasseh Cutler

Congregational

May 13, 1742 - July 28, 1823

By Zach Kincaid

Although he did not spend that much time in the state, Manasseh Cutler was a major figure in the settling of Ohio in the years after the American Revolution. Cutler was born on May 13, 1742, in Connecticut. Descended from a long line of clergymen, Cutler entered Yale to become an attorney and broke with…

Francis Asbury

Methodist

August 20, 1745 - March 31, 1816

By Zach Kincaid

“Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.”

Benjamin Rush

Presbyterian

December 24, 1745 - April 19, 1813

By Tim Scheiderer

“There is no one outside my own family whose friendship was so essential to my happiness.” John Adams wrote these words about Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was a man beloved by people near and honored by many from afar. One example is the number of students he taught at the College (now University) of Pennsylvania….

Benjamin Rush

Anglican

January 4, 1746 - April 19, 1813

By Zach Kincaid

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Dr. Benjamin Rush is also known as the Father of Public Schools, the Father of American Medicine, and the Father of American Psychiatry. With such influence stretching to so many areas, Rush points back to the Bible, the Word of God, the gospel of…

Richard Furman

Baptist

October 9, 1755 - August 25, 1825

By Zach Kincaid

Clergyman, patriot, educator, and pioneer denominational stateman. More than any other man, he created the basic organizational concepts that are unique in Southern Baptist denominational life. He was the son of Wood and Rachel (Brodhead) Furman, who moved to Charleston, S. C., shortly after his birth and to the High Hills of Santee in 1770….