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William Booth was born in Nottingham in 1829 into a family where wealth, education and religion were in short supply. In his early teens he started work and at the...

Elisabeth Elliot was born in 1926 in Brussels to missionary parents who soon relocated to the USA. There, at an early age, she made a personal profession of faith to...

Few stories in Christian history are more dramatic than that of John Newton, whose life demonstrates the title of his most famous hymn, ‘Amazing Grace’. Newton was born in London...

In my early days as a Christian one of the most influential figures around was the theologian, philosopher, pastor and preacher Francis Schaeffer. I have always valued his books and...

Hudson Taylor was not just an extraordinary missionary to China, but an incredible example of a life fully surrendered to God. James Hudson Taylor was born in 1832 in Yorkshire,...

April 27th sees the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great Christian leader John Stott, a man who helped and encouraged so many people across the world, including me....

John Paton was born in 1824 in Scotland, the eldest of eleven children in a poor but devout Christian family. When he was twelve, he had come to a personal...

The life of Amanda Smith was extraordinary: she travelled from being a black slave to becoming the first international woman evangelist. Amanda was born in 1837 in the American state...

If you’ve ever wondered how much anyone can do in a lifetime then take a look at William Carey. Born in Northamptonshire in 1761, the young Carey soon showed extraordinary...

Although William Holman Hunt is mostly remembered for The Light of the World, that extraordinary portrait of Christ knocking on the door of the soul, he created many other striking paintings....

Let me be honest. When it comes to the physicist James Clerk Maxwell I struggle to understand even a fraction of his achievements. He was undoubtedly one of the very...

Some heroes of the faith are forgotten and deserve rediscovery. One of these being Apolo Kivebulaya, a remarkable church worker in Africa for 40 years and a reminder of the...