Robert Heinlein once said “A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.” All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself” Martin Luther. Here are some of the remarkable events that shook our planet for the last 100 years.
Alice Walker put it this way “All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.” Still I agree with Ernest Renab that “All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”
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Christian history is glorious not because it is glamorous but because it is made by people who faced hard choices and sometimes unpopular and unattractive tasks, accepting to take up their cross and to follow the path in which their Saviour Jesus Christ led the way. Some have gone through enormous suffering and persecution in the last century and many still are today. Let us be inspired by their determination so that those who come after us will find us faithful.