Heroes of the Faith: with J.John and Killy Podcast
1) On Heroes and Heroism
This series on Christian heroes has made me think about how the idea of heroism applies to you and me. I think that when we use the word hero, even in the Christian context, we can blur two kinds...Show More
2) Heroes of the Faith: Billy Graham
Billy Graham was a man who towered over twentieth-century Christianity and, if I may say so, I had the wonderful privilege of meeting.
3) Heroes of the Faith: Jarena Lee
Jarena Lee overcame many struggles and much opposition to become the first black woman preacher in the United States.
4) Heroes of the Faith: Phillis Wheatley
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.
5) Heroes of the Faith: Tom Rees
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 was also an evangelist...Show More
6) Heroes of the Faith: Lillian Trasher
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 a living experience ...Show More
7) Heroes of the Faith: Bede
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 was bo...Show More
8) Heroes of the Faith: Ida Scudder
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 a total of 1,100 yea...Show More
9) Heroes of the Faith: Brother Andrew
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’. Yet Andrew was...Show More
10) Heroes of the Faith: Darlene Deibler Rose
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 b...Show More