Galileo Galilei—The Father of Modern Science. “You need facts to prove a theory,” he said. What a concept!
J. S. Bach—Perhaps the greatest architect of sound. His Toccata Fugue in D minor is a rock classic.
John Newton—Composer of Amazing Grace. Before that he was a slave trader, and a slave himself.
Elizabeth Fry—Often spending the night in the notorious Newgate Prison, she reformed the prison system in England. They called her the Angel of the Prisons.
Sojourner Truth—A slave. A freedom fighter. The newspapers said she died at 108. She might have looked it, but she wasn’t.
Abraham Lincoln—Freedom Fighter. President of the United States.
Harriet Beecher Stowe—Author of Uncle Tim’s Cabin. She changed the dialogue about slavery. “So you’re the little lady that wrote that book and started this great war!” ~Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman—Rescuer of slaves. She and her gun were mighty convincing.
George Washington Carver—Scientist who invented dozens of uses for things like the peanut. Contrary to myth, however, he didn’t invent peanut butter, he only ate it.
Amy Carmichael—For 55 years she protected little girls from culturally endorsed prostitution.
Mary McLeod Bethune—With $1.50 to her name she started a school and boarding house for girls. Today that school is a university, still going strong.
Aimee Semple McPherson—One of the most famous people of the 20th Century. A preacher with a message. When she escaped from her kidnappers, 50,000 cheering people met her in Los Angeles to celebrate her homecoming.
Corrie ten Boom—Survived a Nazi concentration camp to bring her message of forgiveness to people in 60 countries. One would have never guessed that beneath that soft-spoken gentle exterior beat the heart of a warrior. She would have never guessed that her life’s work of thirty years would not begin until she was in her sixties.
C. S. Lewis—A former atheist turned Christian, his good friend, J. R. R. Tolkien, said: You’ll never get to the bottom of him.
Gladys Aylward—Led 100 barefooted children over the mountains to safety in China.
Louie Zamperini—Olympic athletic, captured by the Japanese in World War II, tortured. He took his message of forgiveness around the world.
Johnny Cash—A Superstar. The Man in Black. A pastor.