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Polycarp – whose name means ‘much fruit’ – was born in Smyrna, today’s port of Izmir in Turkey. He was born in AD69 and grew up at a time when...

Heroism isn’t about achievements; in my view it’s about what you attempt to achieve and how you attempt it. And that makes seventeenth-century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet a hero. Anne...

Andrew Murray was not only one of the most gifted church leaders in nineteenth-century South Africa but also a writer who continues to inspire Christians across the world today. Murray’s...

To appreciate Thomas Cranmer we need to understand his world. He was born in Nottinghamshire in 1489 at a time when almost all Europe followed a single religion: a Catholic...

Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts was a woman who was a household name in Victorian Britain and remains a powerful example of Christian giving. Angela was born in 1814 into the Burdett...

Handel’s Messiah, now as much a part of Christmas as mince pies and mistletoe, is one of the world’s greatest expressions of the Christian faith in music. Its composer, George Frideric Handel,...

Mary Slessor worked for forty years in what is now Nigeria, proclaiming Christ faithfully but, in the process, changing an entire culture. Born in 1848 Mary grew up in extreme...

Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865 to a Cheshire clergyman and school owner. In his youth he acquired a lifelong love of sailing and a passion for sports. He studied...

Dorothy Sayers was not just one of the most popular novelists and playwrights of mid-twentieth-century Britain but also a firm defender of the Christian faith. Born in 1893, Sayers, the...

One of the most remarkable stories in modern Christianity is the explosive growth of the Iranian church. At the end of the 1970s there were a few hundred Christians in...

The story of the eighteenth-century French Christian, Marie Durand, who spent almost all her life in jail for her faith, is challenging. To understand Marie’s imprisonment we need some background....

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings now stands high on any list of favourite books. Few people know that Tolkien was a Christian and that his beliefs underlie his writing. John...