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When in September 2022 the Dutchman Andy van der Bijl, better known as Brother Andrew, died, many obituaries emphasised his dramatic role in the Fifties and Sixties as ‘God’s Smuggler’....

Through her long life, Darlene Deibler Rose was a witness for Christ to people in the furthest parts of the world. Yet through her unforgettable memoir, Evidence Not Seen, of her...

Katharina von Bora, the nun who married the former monk Martin Luther, continues to be an inspiring figure after nearly five hundred years. Katharina was born into a family of...

One of the leading Christians of twentieth-century China was Wang Mingdao, a man who at enormous cost helped grow the house church movement that has kept biblical Christianity alive there....

Few Christians have had as much impact as the 17th-century French monk Brother Lawrence with his little book The Practice of the Presence of God. It’s a book that transformed my...

The arrival of Europeans in Australia from 1788 was catastrophic for the continent’s Aboriginal peoples as they soon found it brought disease, slavery and land seizure. Yet the settlers also...

The name Tyndale, borne by many organisations, buildings and initiatives in the Christian world, honours the pioneer Bible translator and martyr William Tyndale. Tyndale was born in 1494 in a Gloucestershire...

In 15th-century Europe, the Catholic Church, with its intimidating claim to be the only intermediary between God and humankind, ruled over everybody’s life. Yet its authority was being questioned. The...

Betty Greene was a pioneer missionary pilot and a co-founder of MAF, the Mission Aviation Fellowship. Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Greene was born in Seattle in 1920 to a Christian family who...

While most of us acknowledge that mathematics is useful, it’s not a subject we appreciate. How many of us could name a famous mathematician? Here’s one: Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler), a...

Toyohiko Kagawa was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1888, the illegitimate son of a political leader. Orphaned at age four and raised harshly by relatives, he then went to a...

Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson defied every convention of the Victorian era to make remarkable contributions to biblical scholarship. Identical twins, Agnes and Margaret Smith were born in...