Tag: William Williams

• William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), The Voice of the Welsh Revival and the Making of a Singing Nation

  

  In my earlier essays on Daniel Rowland, the great evangelist of the Welsh Methodist Revival, and Howell Harris, the organiser and engine who turned revival into a disciplined movement, I explored two forms of power that shaped modern Wales. The first was the power of the pulpit, preaching as national event, the sermon as moral…

  Antony David Davies

  09/02/2026

  Religion

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