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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...

The 18th-century missionary David Brainerd was a man who had a brief life but an astonishing influence. Brainerd was born in 1718 to a prosperous local administrator in a New...

Anyone travelling through the United States will come across schools, colleges and universities that carry the name of Asbury. They bear witness to a remarkable hero of the faith. Francis Asbury...

Watchman Nee was one of the most significant Christians of twentieth-century China and a man who has been a global influence. Nee was born in 1903 in Fuzhou, south-east China....

Catherine was born to a cloth dyer in Siena, Italy, in 1347, the twenty-third of twenty-six children, most of whom didn’t survive infancy. It was a tough time and place...

One Christian hero who I am privileged to have met is Richard Wurmbrand. His story, told in Tortured for Christ, impacted me deeply as a young student. Wurmbrand was born in...

Isaac Watts was born into a Christian family in 1674 in Southampton. His father was a nonconformist; one of many believers who had refused to join Charles II’s single national...

Phoebe Palmer was one of the foremost Christian leaders of the 19th century and someone whose influence continues to the present day. Born in New York in 1807, Phoebe Worrall...