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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...

Mary Jones was born in December 1784 at Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, a small hamlet in one of the deep valleys of North Wales. It was a Welsh-speaking, sheep-farming community and Mary’s family...

When, in the fourth century ad, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, it lost the threat of persecution but gained new perils. As the church became popular,...

One of the fascinating things about Christianity is how very different the great men and women of God are. George Müller (1805–1898) was not just different, he was unique. Müller...

John Bunyan is one of the most influential Christians of all time. Although he wrote nearly 60 books, his influence rests on one: The Pilgrim’s Progress. It has sold more copies than...

I recently watched the film Harriet based on the true story of Harriet Tubman. I was inspired and, having since researched her, Harriet has now become one of my Christian heroes. Harriet...

One of my heroes is the Cornish evangelist Billy Bray. I read his biography soon after becoming a Christian and was hugely impacted and inspired. Billy was born in 1794...

This summer I am writing about some of my favourite Christian heroes and a particularly fascinating one is Josephine Butler (1828–1906). She is little known today despite being one of...