Christian Biography

The life and works of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) have shaped the development of the Christian Church, sparking controversy and influencing the id...

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confes...

An Out-of-Control Rock Star. An Inescapable Addiction to Drugs. A Miraculous Redemption through Jesus Christ. You think you've heard this story be...

This acclaimed story traces the idyllic marriages of Shelton and Jean Vanauken, their search for faith, their friendship with C. S. Lewis, and the ...

Anna was four years old when Fynn, then only 16 himself, found her wandering round London’s Docklands one foggy night in the 1930s. Badly neglected...

Georges and Pauline Vanier were the parents of Jean Vanier, the co-founder of the L’Arche communities. They lived an intensely spiritual life, infl...

When the search for a new Archbishop of Canterbury began, Justin Welby had been a bishop for only four and a half months. He had little media profi...

The most authentic stories of Christian hope in the 21st Century come from the experiences of `ordinary' people living `ordinary' lives. In this en...

'In Italy, they call him il Papa, which means The FATHER’. Until his unprecedented 2013 election, author and friend Elisabetta Piqué called him Pa...

The most authentic stories of Christian faith in the 21st Century come from the experiences of ordinary people living ordinary lives. In this uniqu...

Did Jesus have any plan in His three year ministry? ~ Is it possible to follow the changes and developments in Jesus' tours of Galilee? Since the n...

“There are no Europeans left on the Hill; we should have gone too! Everyone else was evacuated early this morning! We must all go immediately!” The...

“This is an exceptionally moving and fascinating account of a family of six who graciously adapted to working in five continents over seven decades...

“God can teach us more about himself through any life experience if we are willing to learn.” As Julie Shimizu reflects on the journey of her life...

In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life – and radically change the li...

“My God won’t let me do that.” These seven words of boundless hope would irreversibly change the life of the teenage boy who spoke them. On April...

Vinh Chung was born in South Vietnam, just eight months after it fell to the communists in 1975. His family was wealthy, controlling a rice-milling...

Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen's Children have been changing lives in Cairo's notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innov...

A nun? A mystic? A female Martin Luther? Who was this noble Frenchwoman whom her contemporaries harassed, imprisoned, and finally condemned as a he...

A Muslim girl, imprisoned by her religion, her strict upbringing, her womanhood and her severe disability, is set free by God. This classic true-l...

Dr. Meyer stresses the many-sided significance of the life of John the Baptist. It would be hard for anyone to read this book without being animate...

Anne Boleyn, twenty years old, stepped onto the shore at Dover in the winter of 1521 after several years abroad. She had been sent to France to ass...

Living a simple life as a watchmaker's daughter, little did Corrie know that God would use her to save hundreds of lives and that one day she would...

Jim Elliot with four brave friends undertook one of the most infamous missionary adventures of all time! With compassion they were willing to try r...

After being forced to leave the Army through injury, Josh Fortune's life is in a mess. Blaming God for his sufferings, he begins to fall away from ...

A poor Scottish boy, working in a cotton mill at 10 years old; going to Africa, attacked by a lion, exploring unmapped areas, meeting slave traders...

Bright and vibrant account of how a London-born Jewess of Russian descent found herself passionately worshipping Jesus in an Iranian church in Chis...

From the first-century stoning of Stephen through his own perilous time—Reformation-era England—John Foxe recounts the lives, sufferings, and trium...

Page Three model, serially unfaithful, heroin addict. Loving mother, honourable wife, daughter of God. Two lives. One woman. One God. Susie was a r...

David Brainerd, an early missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, died in 1747 at the age of twenty-ni...

Hannah Luce shares her extraordinary childhood travelling the globe, evangelizing alongside her parents, and her time of questioning her faith. She...

Never has there been such interest in heresy and the 'religious forbidden' But what is heresy? Why has it been sprinkled with stardust in recent ye...

This elegantly written biography offers the most intimate, detailed, rounded and supremely human portrait yet painted of the great Christian thinke...