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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...

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....