This Week in Christian History: End Times Prediction, Chicago Statement, Little Sisters Founder Born

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor
Reformed theologian and Ligonier Ministries founder Robert Charles Sproul speaks in this undated video.
Reformed theologian and Ligonier Ministries founder Robert Charles Sproul speaks in this undated video. | (Screenshot: Ligonier Ministries)

Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.

Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, telling tribulations, inspirational progress, and everything in between.

Here are just a few things that happened this week, Oct. 21–27, in Church history. They include the birth of the founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, the beginning of the summit that created the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, and Family Radio President Harold Camping's final end times prediction failing to happen.

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