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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Orthodox

November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

By Zach Kincaid

“Life is in ourselves and not in the external,” writes Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his brother dated December 22, 1849. “To be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter–this is what life is, herein lies its task.”…

Andrew Murray

Dutch Reformed

May 9, 1828 - January 18, 1917

By Zach Kincaid

Andrew Murray was born on May 9th, 1828 in Graaff Reinet, South Africa. Murray had an incredible Christian heritage growing up. His father was a Dutch Reformed minister who weekly read revival accounts to his family, and prayed regularly for revival to come to South Africa. Missionaries traveled through constantly, including David Livingston. In 1838,…

Christina Rossetti

Anglican

December 5, 1830 - December 29, 1894

By Zach Kincaid

The Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) is most celebrated for her popular Christmas carols, but her most prolific liturgical season was Lent. A fervent Anglican, Rossetti expressed in her poems a deeper understanding of suffering than pieces like “Love Came Down At Christmas” might lead you to suspect. In her Lenten poetry, she focuses not only on…

D.L. Moody

Congregational

February 5, 1837 - December 22, 1899

By Zach Kincaid

Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899), evangelist and Christian educator, was born in Northfield, Massachusetts. Leaving home at a young age Moody travelled to Boston where he became a successful shoe salesman. While in Boston he was converted by a Congregationalist Sunday-school teacher named Edward Kimball and soon afterward directed much of his efforts towards preaching the…

Lottie Moon

Southern Baptist

December 12, 1840 - December 24, 1912

By Zach Kincaid

It is said that Charlotte Digges Moon (Lottie, for short), born December 12th, 1840, was a precocious child, somewhat unruly, and irreverent. Many prayed for her salvation, but she was a scoffer. Later, after a series of revival meetings, she decided to seriously consider Christianity. Shortly after her 18th birthday, she received Jesus as her Savior…

Mary Slessor

Presbyterian

December 2, 1848 - January 13, 1915

By Zach Kincaid

Mary Slessor was a hard working Scottish mill girl and an unorthodox Sunday School teacher, who, inspired by David Livingstone, became a missionary in Calabar, Nigeria, an area where no European had set foot before. Despite several bouts of illness and constant danger, she lived with the tribes, learned their language, and traditions, earning their…

Annie Armstrong

Southern Baptist

July 11, 1850 - December 20, 1938

By Zach Kincaid

In the late 1800’s women were not expected to be leaders, to speak up, to be visionaries…Annie Armstrong was never concerned with what the world expected. “When I get hold of an idea that seems to me to be a good one, I somehow do not feel comfortable until I see it carried out.” Annie’s…