George Maynard Whitfield, 81, of Virginia Beach, VA, passed away peacefully on March 28, 2024, with loved ones by his side. Born on Christmas Day in 1942, George’s legacy is forever etched in the ...

With the nation’s 250th birthday looming, George Whitefield is yet another contested ghost from America’s past, still haunting the present.

Durham, N.C. — This past Saturday night the Archway Foundation held their annual fundraising gala at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The lights were on showcasing one of the best venues in sports. It ...

A GREAT AWAKENING, tells the true story of an unlikely friendship between the Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin that resulted in one of the most defining moments in American history.

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If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George Whitefield, hailed by scholars as the best-known evangelist of that century, would have been all over it. Whitefield (pronounced WIT-field), who was born in ...