Evangelist, Author
Zach Kincaid
Brennan Manning

April 27, 1934 - April 12, 2013 
Evangelist and Author
From New York City
Served in many settings as a traveling preacher
Affiliation: Evangelical
"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good."

Brennan Manning
Scientist
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Allan Sandage

June 18, 1926 - November 13, 2010
Astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe
From Iowa City, Iowa
Served in Pasadena, California
Affiliation: Christian
"We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural."

Allan Sandage
Evangelist, Author
Zach Kincaid
Billy Graham

November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018
Evangelist
From North Carolina
Served around the world
Affiliation: Baptist
"During all my years as an evangelist, my message has always been the Gospel of Christ. It is not a Western religion, nor is it a message of one culture or political system. … It is a message of life and hope for all the world."

Billy Graham
Author, Philosopher
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
Writer and Historian
From Kislovodsk, Russian
Served in Germany and Russia
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox
"This is certainly true. Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life. We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Author, Theologian, Pastor, Martyr
Zach Kincaid
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945
German Lutheran Pastor, Theologian and Anti-Nazi Dissident
From Wrocław, Poland
Served in Germany
Affiliation: Confessing Church
Death: Executed by hanging as the Nazi regime collapsed
"Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement

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Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers

July 24, 1874 - November 15, 1917
Chaplain
From Aberdeen, Scotland
Served in Cairo, Egypt
Affiliation: Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement
Death: Complications with appendicitis because he wouldn’t take a bed with wounded men who needed one more
“We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.”