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Pandita Ramabai was a truly extraordinary woman: reformer, educator and evangelist. She was born in 1858 into a British-ruled India that was dominated by the Hindu caste system which placed...

The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt is an unusual Christian hero, yet, by universal agreement, he is one of the truly great Christian artists. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born...

The story of how a middle-class lady was able to reform the appalling conditions under which prisoners were treated in Britain and in many other countries, is a classic example...

I am one of many people who have found both wisdom and wit from the writings of C.S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis – known always as ‘Jack’ to his friends...

One problem with becoming a public hero is that, inevitably, your life ends up in the hands of the public! There, even in life and certainly after it, imagination creatively...

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685, and was part of a remarkable German musical dynasty. His world was shaped by the theology of Martin Luther, a great church reformer...

The woman who became known as Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in New York in 1797. Born into slavery, Isabella was to be a slave for thirty years. She...

During an age where we topple statues rather than erect them, one man who we can only respect is Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. In six decades of public...

Shi Meiyu was born in Jiujiang, on the shores of China’s Yangtze River in 1873. Both her parents were first-generation Christians: her father a Methodist pastor and her mother principal...

The seventeenth-century Frenchman Blaise Pascal in his 39 years of life solved a range of mathematical and geometrical problems, produced a law of hydraulics, achieved breakthroughs in how air pressure...

It has been said of Edward Jenner that ‘his work saved more lives than any other man on earth’. It’s an extraordinary claim for someone who spent his entire life...

Many Christian heroes made a difference to the world by travelling it; Charles Simeon made a difference by staying in the same place ministering for fifty-four years. Simeon was born...