Category Archives: Obituary
I first became acquainted with Gordon when we were both still young men—about 50 years ago. The man I came to know was one to be admired, respected, and emulated: A devout Christian whose faith inspired those who knew him. A New Testament scholar of the first rank whose scholarship was admired and appreciated by […]
Queen Elizabeth II (born Princess Elizabeth of York), 96, the mother of the United Kingdom’s King Charles III, died September 8, 2022 at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a residence of the British royal family. [Read the “Order of Service for The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”] Her televised State Funeral September […]
Award-winning author, professor, pastor, broadcaster, and speaker Walter Wangerin Jr., 77, died August 5, 2021. He was Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and writer-in-residence at Valparaiso University. [See books written by Walter Wangerin Jr. in the FaithGateway Store] Wangerin won the National Book Award, The New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award, […]
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark), 99, the husband of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II, died April 9, 2021 at Windsor Castle in the English county of Berkshire, two months before his 100th birthday, following an undisclosed infection and a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition. His […]
At the age of 83 in January 2018, international bilingual Christian evangelist Luis Palau, who died March 11, 2021, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. That startling revelation was the impetus for him to reflect on his adventure-filled life of trusting God from his humble beginnings on the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to […]
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Hebrew scholar and Semitic languages specialist Dr. Larry Walker, the last living translator of the original team of biblical language experts who produced the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, died March 8, 2021 at age 88. According to CT, he cared deeply about accuracy and specifics, believing a commitment to the doctrine of […]
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Bible translator Dr. Barclay Moon Newman, Jr., 89, died December 7, 2020 in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri. While employed by American Bible Society (ABS), Dr. Newman was chair and chief translator of the Contemporary English Version (CEV) of the Bible, first published in 1995. He was also a member of the Old Testament Committee […]
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Bible scholar, author, professor, and speaker James Innell (“J.I.”) Packer (@DrJIPacker), died July 17 in Vancouver, British Columbia, five days shy of his 94th birthday. Named in 2005 by TIME magazine one of the 25 most influential evangelicals, Packer authored his first book in 1958, Fundamentalism and the Word of God, as a defense of […]
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Evangelist Jack Van Impe (@Jack_Van_Impe), known as “the Walking Bible,” died at the age of 88, his ministry announced January 18. According to his ministry website, throughout his life Dr. Van Impe “spent about 80,000 hours in memorizing more than 18,000 [Bible] verses. And that time was all invested for the glory of God. There […]
Rev. Dr. Cain Hope Felder, former dean of Howard University’s School of Divinity and a groundbreaking Bible scholar who called attention to the presence of black people in the Bible, died Oct. 1 at the age of 76. He was the general editor of The Original African Heritage Study Bible (Judson Press, 2007). According to […]
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