The December 17 birthday of early Georgia settler and Bethesda founder George Whitefield echoes through history in a particularly Savannahian way. Born in 1714 in Gloucester, England, Whitefield was ...

It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced in the center of downtown Savannah, Georgia. In stark contrast, a nondescript gazebo dedicated to George ...

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 ...

This month marks the tricentennial of the birth of the most famous man in America before the Revolution. George Whitefield, born on Dec. 16, 1714, was a Church of England minister who led the Great ...

A new biography helps us come to terms with the unsavory side of the great revivalist’s mission to America. On the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, there sits a statue of one of the school’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George Whitefield, hailed by scholars as the best-known evangelist of that century, would have been all over it. Whitefield (pronounced WIT-field), who was born in ...

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 ...

The early 18th century was not a time of religious vibrancy and high church attendance. The upheavals of the previous century—collectively, if misleadingly, called “religious wars”—had seemed to ...