The faith factor

Born-again Christian Lauren Davis (pictured here in 2015) gained a shock victory at Wimbledon this year, beating defending champion Angelique Kerber in the second round.

The 25-year-old American has been outspoken about her faith and told US website Unashamed Athletes: … Read More

Beating knives from death to life

Christian author and activist Shane Claiborne (pictured with Rev Dr Sally Mann, spokesperson for Red Letter Christians UK) joined hundreds of East London youngsters and adults to find a better use for knives seized from Newham’s streets. Together with an … Read More

Exposing warriors in Warwickshire

Brave the wilds of the Warwickshire countryside and you’ll find Christians making fires and foraging for food as part of a spiritual warfare course.

Bushcraft expert Mark Kirby, 43, regularly runs survival workshops that teach dauntless delegates about building shelters, … Read More

“God’s land army”

This is the prayer group backing Jen Gaskin, centre (hands clasped together) in her initiative to encourage prayer all round Britain’s coastline on 21 September. “Let’s not forget we are all part of God’s spiritual land army,” she says. HEART’s … Read More

Jesus took me over a threshold

Joan Daniel, 94, stopped breathing for 17 minutes after pre-operative drugs caused a heart attack before a gynaecological procedure in 1980. The grandmother of seven from Romsey, Hampshire, told HEART, “While I was ‘gone’ I experienced Jesus taking me over … Read More

“Life from the dead” for a pastor and for our nation?

A well known pastor and prayer leader recently died in hospital, but revived following intense prayer from his daughter and church.

Prayer leader Pastor Brenda Taylor reported, “He was in hospital for emergency surgery, and at one point actually ‘died’ … Read More

I died and met the God I’d run from all my life

Since 2009, when Crystal McVea was clinically dead for nine minutes, she has told her story to Christian and secular TV stations, and has written a book.

The married mother of four says she went to heaven after complications from … Read More

‘Modern-day resurrection’

The story of John Smith, a 14-year-old boy who experienced a ‘modern day resurrection’ after being dragged lifeless from a frozen lake has been made into a 2019 Hollywood film, ‘Breakthrough’.

His adoptive mother, Joyce, prayed aloud over her son’s … Read More

Jean Vanier, champion of the vulnerable

Jean Vanier (1928-2019) founded L’Arche communities for people with learning disabilities One of the world’s best known Catholic humanitarians, Jean Vanier, died on 7 May aged 90.

He founded two international organisations for people with intellectual disabilities, L’Arche (The Ark) … Read More

How a squeaky clean ethos got my business off the ground

When Luke Murfitt boldly pitched his fledgling cleaning company to the senior project manager of a major London property developer, he soon discovered he was competing against some of the City’s largest commercial cleaning companies. Read More