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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...

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...