Christian Biography

A compelling portrait of the father of Methodism. The life and work of John Wesley (1703-1791) has had an enormous influence on modern Christianity...

Rees Howells, a powerful intercessor, taught his son Samuel the principles of intercession and commissioned him some weeks before his death, statin...

Reading about the lives and experiences of Christians who, through faith, have overcome trials and tribulations brings us great encouragement and m...

The riveting true story of one refugee's miraculous escape first from Iran, then from imprisonment in Turkey, and her gradual discovery of freedom,...

At the time of his death in 1996 Henri Nouwen was already one of the most popular spiritual writers in the world. Through more than fifty books he ...

Jim Cockburn spent 37 years of his life in teaching and 21 years as the headteacher of a comprehensive school in north-east England, a career that ...

God doesn’t promise us a life free from pain and difficulty, but he does promise to be with us. In this honest account based on email news updates...

"If I were to become a Christian, it would mean not only changing my religion but changing my whole identity, and bringing shame upon my family. My...

Join one woman on a spiritual journey in, around, and through the church on her way to a deeper connection to Jesus… Andrea Syverson was raised C...

Cyprian of Carthage is one of many forgotten early church fathers. And yet his story is one of incredible perseverance for the sake of the gospel. ...

These heroes, in all their humanness, become real and accessible to us as we get to know their God--and ours--more intimately.

A minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for more than sixty years, William Childs Robinson’s career spanned the great events of ...

What brings out the best in believers? John Bunyan's life was changed when he abandoned doubt and despair, embracing the necessity and transforming...

One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption. Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in t...

Sue is an ordinary Christian mother who finds herself passing through the dark and devastating storms of baby bereavement twice in a single year. T...

How would a young American missionary family react when immersed in the heart of remote Tajikistan? Follow the James family’s adventures in an anci...

When God shapes our lives to fit his purposes, anything is possible! Raised in a strict Christian sect, with many religious rules and social requir...

Widely hailed as the “Prince of Preachers,” Charles Spurgeon was a nineteenth-century English pastor known for his powerful preaching, gifted mind,...

What does the man who took the gospel to China's millions have in common with the creator of Wensleydale cheese, or with the inventor of the Crow's...

A vivid portrait of Martin Luther, the man of unshakable faith in God who helped bring about the Protestant Reformation.

"Eric Liddell deserves a definitive biography. This is it." (Sunday Times, Books of the Year). Faster. Higher. Stronger. No one has embodied the i...

What’s a woman to do if her life is not taking shape the way that she thought that it would? What happens when she looks at herself in the mirror, ...

A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us,...

A family’s story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime agai...

A Heart Broken Open is the moving and insightful reflection by a Christian minister on his grassroots engagement with Islam - from inner-city paris...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country ravaged by two civil wars, tribalism, nepotism and the undeniable hardship of daily life. This is the...

In the summer of 1970, a storm raged around a group of young canoers on Opeongo Lake in Ontario, Canada’s Algonquin Provincial Park. Should they pu...

Amy Peterson grew up in a Christian home and, like many young people today, absorbed a message that she needed to do big things for God. Her love o...

Maria Woodworth-Etter was considered one of the most significant evangelists of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Unlike many other writings about ...

Martin Luther is well known for initiating one of the most influential movements in church history—the Reformation. But this fascinating nonconform...

At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. “Nobody is not a d...

Charles Dickens was a great storyteller whose influence and reach extended beyond that normally associated with a novelist. A journalist, commentat...

When Julienne Munyaneza moved from Rwanda to the UK, her husband and children were soon to follow. Then civil war broke out. Whilst news of widespr...

Practising midwifery for thirty-five years, she worked in both Nigeria and the UK, with great success in her career. At a number of critical point...

Dorothy Wigan brings events from the ministry of Jesus to life in a fresh way, retelling the stories from the perspective of those whose lives were...

The incredible and inspiring story of Stephen Curry, the greatest shooter basketball has ever seen and a devout Christian who is not afraid of shar...

Brenda Hale had been married for 22 years when her husband, Mark, was killed in Afghanistan. He was the longest serving soldier to be killed in act...

For nearly thirty years, James M. Kittelson’s Luther the Reformer has been the standard biography of Martin Luther. Like Roland Bainton’s biography...

The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis—now in paperback. The First ...

Combining travelogue with testimony, Nathalie MacDermott shares her life’s adventure with God, offering a compelling memoir set amidst a host of da...

2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, whose six completed novels have never been out of print. Best known for her novels, '...

They said it couldn't be done. But Anne Wafula achieved many remarkable things in her life. This is her incredible story. Struck down with polio a...

A powerful account of British missionaries, Peter and Brenda Griffiths, who played a critical role in the development of the Elim church in the aft...

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiqui...

C. S. Lewis excelled at plumbing the depths of the human heart, both the good and the bad, the beautiful and the corrupt. From science fiction and ...

Shirley Leach lived in a world of extreme comfort, wealth and status. With every good thing life had to offer, she was due to marry the man she lov...