“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…
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,…
“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…
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…
‘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,…
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…
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…