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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...

Amy Carmichael (1867–1951) was an evangelist and a social reformer who worked for a better life for women and girls and fought against the sexual trafficking and abuse of children....

When I became a Christian in 1975 one book that everybody read was Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place. I read it in one sitting – I couldn’t put it down....

William Seymour was at the heart of the Azusa Street Revival that reshaped Christianity across the world. If you are one of the half a billion Christians who are now...

The saying ‘it’s not the years of your life that matter, it’s the life in your years’ was never truer of anyone more than Robert Murray M’Cheyne who died at...

St Augustine may be ‘the most influential figure in Christianity after St Paul’. He wrote much (some 5 million words), and his teaching has influenced theology ever since. Like all...