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The plot of Christmas Vacation is that Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase) decides that this year his family is going to have ‘the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever’. He becomes...

Jarena Lee overcame many struggles and much opposition to become the first black woman preacher in the United States. Jarena was born into a free black family in New Jersey...

My favourite Miracle on 34th Street is the 1994 version starring Sir Richard Attenborough. This feel-good classic tells the heart-warming story of a young girl’s desire for a fully functional family, complete...

A common experience at this time of year is to pick up a Christmas card from an old friend and reflect on the past. Should I have left that job?...

It’s a Wonderful Life follows the life of George Bailey, born and raised in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. But he is someone with ambition and imagination who...

Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved black woman who became one of the first published writers in North America, was a Christian who fought the horror of slavery. Phillis was born in...

Our modern Christmas celebration owes an enormous amount to Charles Dickens’ popularisation of a food-filled, feel-good, family-focused festival. A Christmas Carol has been filmed many times but my favourite is the...

Tom Rees was an evangelist who proclaimed the gospel, and here I should declare a personal interest: he was my wife’s great-uncle, the brother of Dick Rees, her grandfather, who...

Lillian Trasher spent a lifetime in Egypt, where she created one of the world’s largest orphanages with small resources but enormous faith. Born in Florida in 1887, Lillian came to...

Although Bede, the great Anglo-Saxon monk, scholar and historian, spent all his life in north-east England, his influence spread across Europe and gained him the title the ‘Venerable Bede’. Bede...

There is no more outstanding example of a Christian dynasty than the Scudder family, of whom it could be written in 1959 that ‘forty-two members through four generations had given...

Of the many accounts of the martyrdom of early Christians, one of the most compelling is that of a woman, Perpetua, who was executed in an arena at Carthage, now...