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Two figures dominated the evangelical church of Britain in the late nineteenth century: the nonconformist preacher Charles Spurgeon and the Anglican preacher, writer and bishop, John Charles Ryle. Ryle was...

Few people have achieved as much for the kingdom of God in as little time as Henry Martyn, missionary and Bible translator, whose life ended when he was only thirty-one....

Mahalia was born in 1911 to poor, unmarried parents in New Orleans. The bitter memory of slavery still lingered amongst African-Americans: all Mahalia’s grandparents had been born slaves. Although brought...

Evan Roberts was at the heart of the 1904 revival in Wales. From the 1730s, Wales had become dominated by a nonconformist ‘chapel culture’ that emphasised preaching and theological correctness...

John Wycliffe was born in the late 1320s in Yorkshire and became a student at Oxford University in 1346. There he witnessed the horrifying epidemic of the Black Death which,...

Helen Roseveare was born in 1925 in Hertfordshire, England, and went to Cambridge University to study medicine at the end of the Second World War. There she began to attend...

Athlete and missionary Eric Liddell had been largely forgotten until the 1981 film Chariots of Fire reminded the world of him. Liddell was born in China to Scottish missionaries in 1902. At...

There are very few individuals from the 19th century whose names are widely known today. One exception is that of Thomas Barnardo whose work with needy children continues. Barnardo was...

Denominations, churches and even individual Christians always risk stagnation; a situation in which everybody is busy doing nothing. At such times, God often sends someone to shake things up. A...

Benedict of Nursia was born in AD 480 just at the time when the Roman Empire was ending and the Middle Ages beginning. That Christianity and learning were kept alive...

John Wesley was one of the most influential Christian preachers in history and a man who had an enormous and lasting impact on his nation and the world. Wesley was...

Charlotte Moon was born in 1840 to a plantation-owning family in Virginia, in the pre-Civil War southern culture depicted in Gone with the Wind. Her family were committed to women’s education...