Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
Born: March 6, 1837
Died: June 3, 1911 (aged 74)
Bio: Arthur Tappan Pierson was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland and England.
Known for:
- George Müller of Bristol (1897)
- Forward movements of the last half century (1900)
- Knowing the Scriptures (1910)
- The miracles of missions (1891)








