oddities

Church history is filled with wonderful and exciting people. But people are people. So church history also is filled with some funny things. Did you know that:

• George Whitefield was cross-eyed

• Famous preacher Jonathan Edwards was fired

• Martin Luther married a nun

• Athanasius outfoxed Egyptian soldiers as they raced down the Nile

• John Wesley invented an electric shock machine and sent it to Ben Franklin

• Martin Luther named his dog "Tölpel," which is a German word for clumsy

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