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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...

Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf was born in Dresden in 1700 to an aristocratic family. He grew up with a deep love for Jesus. In 1716 Zinzendorf went to the University...

Some of my heroes are known for a lifetime of activity but some, like Rosa Parks, the woman whose quiet protest ended racial segregation in the United States, are known...

Although the phrase ‘Sunday school’ now tends to be greeted with condescension, when Robert Raikes created the first modern Sunday schools it was a revolutionary answer to a desperate social...

One of the most important cultural figures a hundred years ago was G.K. Chesterton; an astonishingly prolific writer, speaker and defender of Christianity. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in 1874...

Hannah More was born in 1745 near Bristol, the fourth of five daughters of a schoolmaster. At a time when only upper-class women had a formal education, her father ensured...

Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Wales in 1899 and lived there until he was a teenager when his family moved to London. Despite spending most of his life in London,...

One truly notable Christian woman is Mildred Cable: missionary to China, a pioneering explorer and writer. Born in Guildford in 1878 to a family with a deep Christian faith, Mildred...

Francis of Assisi is apparently the world’s most popular saint, but much of this popularity is for the ‘legendary Francis’; an amiable, uncontroversial spiritual figure who loved animals, proclaimed peace...

Fanny Crosby was a prolific hymnist, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, and the most remarkable thing about her was that she did so in spite of her...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed for his long-standing opposition to Hitler, is one of the great Christian heroes of the twentieth century. Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 to an aristocratic German family....

In the nineteenth century Harriet Beecher Stowe was the most important woman in the United States. It is reported that during the American Civil War, when she was introduced to...