"Works! Works! A man get to heaven by works! I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!" With these words the Rev. George Whitefield summed up his teachings during a two-hour ...

A farmer in 18th century Philadelphia was out in his field one day when he thought he heard the voice of God. Later that night, a friend told him that the voice actually belonged to the Rev. George ...

With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield ignites the first Great Awakening, uniting an ...

GEORGE WHITEFIELD: AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL FOUNDING FATHER By Thomas S. Kidd Yale University Press, $38, 344 pages In the fall of 1764, George Whitefield, itinerant evangelical preacher, gave a ...

The revivalist preached, ‘Come and be married to Christ’—and sparked the Great Awakening. Editor’s note: What do you get when a charismatic thespian bumps into the Wesley brothers in college? “The ...

George Whitefield, Jarena Lee and Charles Finney. From John Hughes to Joseph Smith, scroll to see how different people living during America's formative years influenced the current state of religion ...

(RNS) Future evangelists -- most notably Billy Graham -- followed a pattern set by Whitefield of making the most of the media available in their time. (RNS) If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George ...

A GREAT AWAKENING tells the true story of the unlikely friendship between Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin ...

NEWBURYPORT — The city is preparing year-round activities in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of George Whitefield, often referred to as “the forgotten Founding Father.” The 18th ...

Whitfield County in North Georgia is named for a forgotten forerunner of the Great American Revolution. Although he never came to the local area, George Whitefield (the spelling of the name was ...

A GREAT AWAKENING, tells the true story of an unlikely friendship between the Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin ...