C3 CHURCH TIMELINE 1952 (May 21): Phil Pringle was born in Masterton, New Zealand. 1971: Phil had a vision of the devil circling him. Frightened, he called out, “Jesus!” 1971: Phil and then-girlfriend Christine (known as a “Chris” within the movement) responded to an altar call at an Assembly of God Church in Sydenham, a suburb outside of Christchurch. They were born again. 1971 (August 8): Phil and Chris were married. 1972: While living in Oxford Terrace, New Zealand, a pastor from Sydney, Paul Collins, attended one of Phil and Chris’s house meetings. He made the comment, “Oh, we need something like this in Sydney,” thereby planting the seed of Phil’s vision that he would one day start a church in Sydney. 1973: Pastor Dennis Barton was ousted from…
BALLINSPITTLE TIMELINE 1985 (July 22): A group of five people who stopped to pray at the Ballinspittle grotto claimed to have seen the statue of Our Lady breathing and or moving to and fro. 1985 (July 24): A police sergeant went to check out possible statue movements and reported that he saw the statue move vigorously. 1985 (July 25): The Cork Examiner reported that “hundreds” were now praying at the Ballinspittle grotto. 1985 (July 31): The Bishop of Cork and Ross, issued a statement urging restraint on the part of visitors to the grotto. 1985 (August 1): Catherine (“Kathy”) O’Mahony and the Ballinspittle apparition were featured on a primetime television news broadcast. 1985 (August 2): A Cork city newspaper estimated the number of people gathering at the Ballinspittle grotto…
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES TIMELINE 1852: Founder-leader Charles Taze Russell was born. 1870: Russell began his Bible study group in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. 1876: Russell was designated Pastor of the Bible Study Group. 1877: Russell collaborated with Nelson H. Barbour, publishing Three Worlds and the Harvest of This World. 1879: The first edition of Zion’s Watch Tower (now The Watchtower) was published. 1881 (February 16): Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society began its tract distribution. 1884: Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society was legally incorporated in Pennsylvania. 1886: Divine Plan of the Ages by Charles Taze Russell was published as the first volume of Millennial Dawn (later retitled Studies in the Scriptures). 1909: The Society’s headquarters relocated to Brooklyn, New York. 1914: The audio-visual production The Photo-Drama of Creation was screened for the first time.…
PROVIDENCE TIMELINE 1945 (March 16): Jung Myung Seok was born in Seokmak-ri, Jinsan-myun, Kumsan-gun, South Chungcheong (Chungnam) Province, South Korea. 1951: At age six, Jung discovered Christianity. 1965: Jung served as Sunday school teacher in the local Presbyterian church and became an independent street evangelist. 1966 (February 22): Jung was enlisted to serve in the Vietnam War as part of South Korean Army’s 9th Division. 1967 (August 26): Jung concluded his first tour of duty in Vietnam. 1968 (February 18): Jung returned to Vietnam. 1969 (April 15): Jung concluded his second tour of duty in Vietnam. 1971 (July 20): The rebuilt Presbyterian Seokmak Church was inaugurated in Seokmak, as a result of Jung’s efforts to collect money for the building. 1972–1975: Jung explored several mainline and new religions, including Yongmunsan…
BEGUINES TIMELINE 1211: James of Vitry left Paris for the town of Oignies, where he met and developed a close spiritual friendship with the devout laywoman Mary of Oignies (1177–1213). 1213: Mary of Oignies died. 1215: The Fourth Lateran Council took place. 1216 (July): James of Vitry requested and received permission from Pope Honorius III for the mulieres religiosae (religious women) in the diocese of Liège, the kingdom of France, and the German Empire to live in common and pursue lives of chastity and prayer. 1216 (Autumn): James of Vitry completed the Life of Mary of Oignies, which served as a model for communities of religious women in the region. 1233: Pope Gregory IX issued Gloriam virginalem, which extended papal protection to “continent virgins” in Germany and later in…
ASATRU TIMELINE 870-930 CE: Norse Pagan Vikings settled in Iceland. 930-1262: Iceland was established as an independent republic or commonwealth, with a national parliament, the Alþingi (the “All-Thing” or “Thing-of all”). 1000: The Alþingi voted to accept Christianity as the official religion of the country, while allowing Pagan religious practices to continue in private. 1100-1300: Myths and poems concerning the now-fading Pagan traditions were preserved in literary texts called Eddas and Sagas. 1262-1944: Iceland comes under Norwegian (then Danish) rule, suffering exploitation as a colonial state. Religious life was dominated first by the Catholic Church, then the Lutheran. Pagan traditions survived in folklore. Icelandic nationalists pushing for independence in the nineteenth century praised Icelandic medieval literature with its tales of Pagan gods and forebears as essential national heritage. 1944 to…
CHRISLAM TIMELINE 1939 (September 1): Tela Tella was born in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State in southwest Nigeria. 1962 (August 15): Samsindeen Saka was born in Ijebu-Ode, a town in Ogun State in southwest Nigeria. 1971: Tela Tella received a “divine call” from God. 1976 (April 18): Tela Tella answered the “divine call” from God to establish His will on earth by founding Ifeoluwa, Yoruba for “the will of God,” in Agege: a densely-populated suburb in Nigeria’s former capital Lagos. 1985: Upon meditation and divine inspiration, Tella coined the term “Chrislam” for his mission. 1989: Samsindeen Saka received a “divine call” from God during his pilgrimage to Mecca. 1990 (February 28): Samsindeen Saka answered the “divine call” from God by establishing his Chrislam movement, Oketude, in Ogudu: a neighbourhood…
APOSTLES OF INFINITE LOVE TIMELINE 1905 (September 15): Michel Collin was born in Béchy, Lorraine, France. 1928 (September 8): Gaston Tremblay was born in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada 1933 (July 9): Collin was ordained to the priesthood in Lille, France. 1935 (April 28): Collin had a vision that resulted in the foundation of the Apôtres de L’Amour Infini (the Apostles of Infinite Love). 1940: Tremblay had a vision of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, saying that he would found a “Company of Mary.” 1944 (August 15): Tremblay entered the community of Hospitalers of St. John of God in Montreal. 1949 (August): Tremblay had a vision of a future pope. 1950 (October 7): Collin had a vision that God crowned him pope. 1951 (January 17): In a decree, the Holy Office…
EXODUS INTERNATIONAL TIMELINE 1976: EXODUS was created at the Ex-Gay Intervention Team (EXIT) Summit Conference in Anaheim, California. The event was considered the organization’s first national conference. 1979: Two EXODUS co-founders, Michael Bussee and Gary Cooper of EXIT, announced they were in love and left the movement. 1982: Johan van de Sluis from the Netherlands led the effort to create Exodus Europe as an independent organization (affiliated with Exodus North America). 1983: Alan Medinger became the organization’s first executive director. 1985: Bob Davies became the organization’s second executive director. 1988: Australian Peter Lane, with support from EXODUS leaders, helped establish Exodus South Pacific, a coalition of ministries from Australia and New Zealand. 1995: Organized by Vice President Patricia Allan, Exodus (North America) sponsored a summit of Exodus’s world…
MOVE TIMELINE 1931: Vincent Lopez Leaphart, who would become John Africa, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1968: Vincent Leaphart began compiling a manuscript that would become The Guidelines of John Africa. 1972: The early members of MOVE began meeting to discuss The Guidelines of John Africa. 1973: MOVE people purchased 309 North 33rd Street in the Powelton Village neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The house served as the first MOVE headquarters. 1976: MOVE people Janine and Phil Africa’s newborn son, Life Africa, was killed during a fight with police at MOVE headquarters. 1977: MOVE founded two offshoot groups: Seed of Wisdom in Richmond, Virginia, and a second group, composed mostly of fugitive MOVE people, in Rochester, New York. 1977 (May 20): An armed standoff between MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department,…