In 1549, Thomas Cranmer published the first Book of Common Prayer. In doing so, he gave Christians a helpful pattern

I was reading recently about a Christian man called John Paton who travelled to the New Hebrides, now known as

One of my favourite stories relates to the Moravian Christians of Herrnhut. In August 1727, a community of Moravian Christians

I recently read about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed the Nazi regime during World War 2. It’s a gripping testimony: he

In 1799, a group of Christians met in the Castle and Falcon Inn, in London. The gathering was modest in

In 1608, a man named Thomas Coryate travelled throughout Europe on foot. He walked many miles, carrying a journal along

As we finally move into a colder season in Hong Kong, I am reminded of a story that started on

Aboard the HMS Challenger, a team of 237, including naval officers and scientists, undertook what would become the world’s first

In the 18th Century, a musician named William Herschel was spending his evening—not practising the oboe but surveying clusters of

During World War II, a Japanese soldier named Hiroo Onoda was sent to the remote Philippine jungle with orders to