Book Reviews

Possibly the Best Missionary Biography You Have Never Heard Of: The Life of Lilias Trotter

Trotter, a wealthy young woman from an aristocratic British family, turned her back on a promising artistic career to become a missionary to Muslim women in the north African nation of Algeria. Despite a heart condition that caused mission boards to reject her candidacy, she labored self-supported in this difficult field for four decades.

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Reviewing the Best Biography of Gladys Aylward

Early biographers exalted Aylward as a hero. Screenwriters twisted her life story into a wartime romance in the 1958 movie, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Just months before she passed away in 1970, Aylward with the help of Christine Hunter tried to set the record right by writing her own autobiography, A Small Woman. However, this endearing book rambles in generalities, leaving out key details. In A London Sparrow, Phyllis Thompson does her research and puts together a compelling account of how God used the most unlikely of believers beyond all expectations.

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Reviewing Hudson Taylor’s Best Biography

During the turbulent colonial era, a sickly British boy, named Hudson Taylor, comes to Christ and hears God’s call to China. Spurning the aristocratic society of his day, he turns to God alone for support during his medical studies, leaves for China under an unsteady mission, embraces local Chinese dress and diet, and launches into the interior of China with the gospel of Jesus Christ…

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