Biography

Macrina of Cappadocia - Christian Biographies For Young Readers (Hardcover)

Born in 347 in Cappadocia, Macrina is remembered by Christians everywhere as an example of faith, love, and wisdom. While she is not as well known as her brothers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa, this woman theologian of the early church made...

Hugh Latimer - Bitesize Biographies (Paperback)

The life of Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-1555) spanned the most critical years of the great revival of biblical Christianity known as the Reformation. Within a year of his conversion in 1524, he became a popular preacher and reformer. He soon fell foul of...

William Perkins - Bitesize Biographies (Paperback)

William Perkins (1558-1602) earned a bachelor’s degree in 1581 and a master’s degree in 1584 from Christ’s College in Cambridge. During those student years he joined up with Laurence Chaderton, who became his personal tutor and lifelong...

Polycarp of Smyrna: The Man Whose Faith Lasted (Hardcover)

There are lots of ‘idols’ these days. But do you have any heroes? What’s the difference? Idols are people we say we ‘adore’ because they are famous, or rich, or good looking, or because they have amazing talents, or special...

Irenaeus of Lyons: The Man Who Wrote Books (Hardcover)

There are lots of ‘idols’ these days. But do you have any heroes? What’s the difference? Idols are people we say we ‘adore’ because they are famous, or rich, or good looking, or because they have amazing talents, or special...

Ignatius of Antioch: The Man Who Faced Lions (Hardcover)

There are lots of ‘idols’ these days. But do you have any heroes? What’s the difference? Idols are people we say we ‘adore’ because they are famous, or rich, or good looking, or because they have amazing talents, or special...

Grace Abounding (Cloth-bound)

John Bunyan is known across the English-speaking world as the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. But who was Bunyan, and what was it that provided him with the stimulus and inspiration to write that most revered and well-loved of allegories? The...

Anne Bradstreet - Christian Biographies For Young Readers (Hardcover)

Anne Bradstreet was the first published poet in America. She arrived in the American colonies in 1630 and lived an often difficult pioneering life. Despite the disapproval of people who thought that only men should write and study, Anne expressed her...

Five Pioneer Missionaries: John Eliot, David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, William Chalmers Burns, John G. Paton (Paperback)

There are few more thrilling periods of church history than the great missionary movement which stretched from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Recognizing that Jesus Christ was the missionary sent by the Father, and that the Bible is the...