Benjamin Beddome News Today

As we noted in last month’s column, Benjamin Beddome, the 18th-century Baptist pastor, was in the habit of preparing a hymn to be sung at the close of the morning worship service, which would pick up the theme of his sermon. Given this sermonic link of the vast majority of ...

Over the past two months, we have been considering the pastoral ministry of Benjamin Beddome at Bourton-on-the-Water. In the first 15 years or so of his ministry, the church knew revival. But during the 1750s and the first half of the 1760s the numerical growth of the church began to ...

Benjamin Beddome, whose life and ministry we began to look at last month, first visited Bourton-on-the-Water in the spring of 1740. Over the next three years he laboured with great success in the Bourton church. Significant for the shape of his future ministry was a local revival that took place ...

For some odd reason, I am drawn to the lives of Christians who can only be regarded as obscure or marginal to the main story of Christianity that is usually told in our church history books. So, for example, I am currently writing a life of Benjamin Beddome (1718–1795), who ...

When faced with a problem, why turn to prayer for solutions? For an athlete experiencing a recurring illness that hindered him from running longer distances, that question felt very real – and the inspiration and healing that occurred through relying on Christian Science have had a lasting impact in his life.