Vision

Known for their fidelity to prayer and confrontation with the spirits of indigenous religion, West Africa’s Aladura churches grew from the radical faith of a group of visionary leaders.

In Bede’s view, the history of the English church—like the history of redemption—begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation.

Visions of eternity just aren’t what they used to be.

Banished from his hometown, Dante became lonely, bitter, and inspired.

The wide-open West was served, state by state, by brave and sometimes beleaguered ministers and missionaries like these.

Sabas just wanted to pray where Christ had lived and died but ended up establishing the most famous monastery in the Judean Desert.

Monasticism was more or less a solitary affair until these four came along and taught monks how to live in community.

Nat Turner’s rebellion, the bloodiest in slave history, was driven by his prophetic visions.

Behind the fanciful legends of the fifth-century British missionary stands a man worthy of embellishment.

Pentecostalism’s early leaders were as varied as they were dynamic