I want to mention my Aunt and Uncle because I didn’t know that they were strongly Christian until I was an Adult. I found out when my mother told a story about how they were asked by their church to see Monty Python’s The Life of Brian and judge if it was suitable. They saw it and then went back and saw it again, taking many of their friends from church with them.
No problem comes between them. When a problem arises they are always on each other’s side against the problem. While I am not Christian I do aspire to that sort of attitude within my married life.
The reason they are my Christian heroes is because they uphold the values of Christianity yet ‘preach’ only through example. They are accepting of others be they Christian or not.
– Steave
My Christian hero is my best friend Aaron who I first met in college. With him growing up in southern WV, and myself growing up in northern VA, you’d think that we’d have nothing in common. You’d be right. The only things that we can truly agree on is music (and even there we often differ) and alcohol. However, I have had more thoughtful, insightful, and horizon expanding discussions about anything and everything with this man than anyone else I’ve ever met. Especially on religion. He is a fairly devout fellow, and to be succinct, I am not. Despite this though, we’re still able to maintain a thoughtful discussion, and even change each other’s minds on occasion. His brand of Christianity is like I’ve seen from few others in that he despises the hypocrisy that is rampant throughout organized religion. Currently he is living in Denver CO and attending seminary school so that he can stop simply complaining about it and actually go out and do what he can to remedy it. He sees a problem, and is doing his best to do something about it. If that’s not a hero, I don’t know what is. Oh yeah, he’s currently helping out a single mother of 3 who’s attending the same school as his wife too. Anyone who can not only put up with, but actually encourage my blathering after all these years DEFINITELY deserves some credit.
– Rich
My all time best ever hero is Johannes Kepler, and his Christianity plays a big part in what made him so very amazing. It was a very modern form of Christianity, interested in observable truth in nature and a complete lack of interest in sectarian violence that so troubled Europe at the time.
Kepler showed the way for a good Christian (or good anyone) to do science. He believed that the movements of the planets around the sun were ordained by God and that the most logical way for God to do so would be what he called the Platonic solid model. He had a vision of how the solar system was an image of God, with the Sun corresponding to the Father, the stellar sphere to the Son, and so on and so forth. He spent a lot of effort trying to prove his vision of what he believed, but it didn’t work. Painful as it was, he rejected it because he believed in truth, and that to follow God was to follow truth.
- Duncan W. (Wellington)
© 2004 John Sunami from a concept by Brad Mitchell. Used by permission.
To this day, I can’t watch any film of Fred Rogers without tearing up. He seemed to practice– power gentleness. He inspired an immediate bodily awareness of deep gratitude toward the cosmos, for me. His faith seemed to be the foundation of his work, yet he never proselytized. His position was one of respect for each person, and their divinity.
Also– lest I forget, Mr. Rogers rocked a cardigan and oxfords like none before and after 
– Mandy Rose Henderson (Columbus)
As much as I enjoyed writing my book, “Hero For Christ”, I know that I left out far more heroes than I was able to include. That’s where you come in. Tell me who your Christian Hero is –and why.
