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Heroes of the Faith: Wang Mingdao
One of the leading Christians of twentieth-century China was Wang Mingdao, a man who at enormous cost helped grow the house church movement that has kept biblical Christianity alive there....
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Heroes of the Faith: Brother Lawrence
Few Christians have had as much impact as the 17th-century French monk Brother Lawrence with his little book The Practice of the Presence of God. It’s a book that transformed my...
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Heroes of the Faith: David Unaipon
The arrival of Europeans in Australia from 1788 was catastrophic for the continent’s Aboriginal peoples as they soon found it brought disease, slavery and land seizure. Yet the settlers also...
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Heroes of the Faith: William Tyndale
The name Tyndale, borne by many organisations, buildings and initiatives in the Christian world, honours the pioneer Bible translator and martyr William Tyndale. Tyndale was born in 1494 in a Gloucestershire...
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Heroes of the Faith: John Hus
In 15th-century Europe, the Catholic Church, with its intimidating claim to be the only intermediary between God and humankind, ruled over everybody’s life. Yet its authority was being questioned. The...
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Heroes of the Faith: Betty Greene
Betty Greene was a pioneer missionary pilot and a co-founder of MAF, the Mission Aviation Fellowship. Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Greene was born in Seattle in 1920 to a Christian family who...
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Heroes of the Faith: Leonhard Euler
While most of us acknowledge that mathematics is useful, it’s not a subject we appreciate. How many of us could name a famous mathematician? Here’s one: Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler), a...
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Heroes of the Faith: Toyohiko Kagawa
Toyohiko Kagawa was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1888, the illegitimate son of a political leader. Orphaned at age four and raised harshly by relatives, he then went to a...
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Heroes of the Faith: Agnes Smith Lewis & Margaret Dunlop Gibson
Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson defied every convention of the Victorian era to make remarkable contributions to biblical scholarship. Identical twins, Agnes and Margaret Smith were born in...
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Heroes of the Faith: David Brainerd
The 18th-century missionary David Brainerd was a man who had a brief life but an astonishing influence. Brainerd was born in 1718 to a prosperous local administrator in a New...
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Heroes of the Faith: Francis Asbury
Anyone travelling through the United States will come across schools, colleges and universities that carry the name of Asbury. They bear witness to a remarkable hero of the faith. Francis Asbury...
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Heroes of the Faith: Watchman Nee
Watchman Nee was one of the most significant Christians of twentieth-century China and a man who has been a global influence. Nee was born in 1903 in Fuzhou, south-east China....