Christians

At some time during their lives, the following people have publicly identified themselves as Christian.   Inclusion in this list does not indicate approval or disapproval of the person, their religious beliefs, or their actions.  This is a recurring segment in this blog.

Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso: (b. 1821, New Zealand - b. 1904) Missionary, school teacher,  and Bible translator in New Zealand.  She was fluent in Maori and Mota.  Her husband, Anglican missionary, William Colenso, was fired by his missionary society employers for infidelity (he fathered illegitimate children by two Maori women) and Mrs. Colenso continued in her missionary activities without his involvement. 

William Colenso: (b. 1811, Cornwall - 1899) Printer, botanist, author, explorer, politician, Anglican missionary to New Zealand.  He was a cousin of John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal.  Colenso was fired by his missionary society employers for infidelity (he fathered illegitimate children by two Maori women) and his wife (see above) carried on her work without him.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: (b. 1772, England - d. 1834)Poet, intellectual, lecturer, pantheist.  He translated German works into English.  His understanding of Christianity was that it is primarily related to ethics.

William the Pious, Duke of Aquitaine:  About 909 or 910 he founded the Benedictine monastery at Cluny, France.  The ultra-pious Cluniac rule of order was adopted by about 600 other monasteries.

James Warren Jones: (b. 1931, Indiana - d. 1978) Pentecostal social activist, founder of Wings of Deliverance Church which became the People's Temple Full Gospel Church.  On 18 Nov. 1978 he led 913 of his followers in Guyana in a mass murder-suicide by poisoning.