A Fistful of Heroes

A Fistful of Heroes
By John Pollock
Christian Focus Publications
272 pages. £4.95
ISBN 1 857921 44 5

This is a splendid compendium of short biographies from church history covering the period from the early 18th century to mid 20th century.
It is a combination of two previous publications, and we meet here many well-known characters like Carey, Wilberforce and Elizabeth Fry, along with lesser known mortals like Ernest Presswood.
John Pollock's style is always accessible and he regularly draws helpful spiritual lessons from the Christian lives he records. Young people in particular need better role models than the stars of our present century provide, and this book makes fine bedtime reading.
And the three men I admire the most from this volume? I think it has to be Hudson Taylor, Stanley Smith and Mary Slessor!

JEB

Dr John Benton

© Evangelicals Now - June 1998
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Main Articles

• The shape of things to come?
  The effects of the post-modern age on evangelicalism and possible evangelical futures
• Footsteps on the sea
  The true test of whether life has been sorted out is in times of suffering
• They think it's all over
  Thoughts on the matter of Christians and sport
• 50 books to change your life
  World Book Day and 50 books which The Independent recommends
• Front line fashion crime
  An interview with the musician Patrick Jean-Paul-Denis
• Tattoo you?

Other articles

• Transforming the world? - The social impact of British Evangelicalism
• Anastasia
• The Searcher of Hearts - No charge - an extract from the book The Searcher of Hearts which consists of notes by John Newton for lectures on Romans 8.26-34
• Genesis for Today - showing the relevance of the creation/evolution debate to today's society
• Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments
• A Fistful of Heroes
• The Addiction of a Busy Life
• The Searcher of Hearts - a new discovery of writings on Romans 8
• Homosexuality and Young People
• Homosexuality - The Straight Agenda
• Revival Phenomena
• The King of the Cannibals - The Story of John G Paton (Missionary to the New Hebrides)
• The Healing Promise