The Profile

Australian high jumper Nicola Olyslagers has achieved a lot in her life already. Aged just 28 she is the newly crowned World Champion, winning the gold at the recent World Athletics Championships in Japan. She has won silver medals at the Paris 2024 & Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She is the Australian and Oceania high jump record holder (2.04m).

She is also the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion and will be looking to defend her title n...

Academic Beth Allison Barr grew up in a Christian home a never really questioning the reality of God and was formally baptised aged 11. Not that there weren't a few theological question marks along the way.

She became an academic historian specialising in medieval history while her husband became a Baptist minister. And it was only when they began to challenge their own church concerning the role of women in leadership that her...

24-year-old Harry Clark shot to fame on BBC One's hit reality show The Traitors. He won the second series last year bagging £95,000 which he says he used to pay off family debt and make a small investment - nothing too flash.

Despite the high profile treachery and deceit it took to win, what many people might not know is that Clark's Christian faith is the thing that keeps him grounded.

Clark was born in Nottinghamshire i...

Dr Selina Stone is a theologian who has written on topics as diverse as class, race within Pentecostal theology as well as racial inequality in the church and black spirituality.

Stone grew up in a working class family in Birmingham attending a Pentecostal church with her family. Her parents were teachers 'always reading' and from an early age she says she was steeped in church 'through and through.'

She says she was t...

Artist Kirk Franklin is known to millions and has amassed a staggering 20 grammys since he first started making music in the early nineties.

He was born in Texas and from very early on, aged just four, Franklin began playing the piano; by 11 he was directing his church choir. Despite a sold grounding in Gospel music his own musical influences came from Hip Hop which meant when he came to make music of his own - founding Kir...

Investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski began his charitable life at the tender age of six when he opened a soup kitchen with his Catholic mother. She had been a nurse during WW2 and as he says in this interview it is sometimes easier to meet Christ 'in service', especially as a child.

He went on to work in banking, becoming one of the first practising Catholics to enter Morgan Stanley. He is now vice-chairman o...

When Jeremy Stalnecker fulfilled his childhood dream of joining the Marines he thought he had it made. He had grown up in southern California into a Christian family and his father was a pastor. Despite an early biblical grounding he did not see ministry as part of his future.

After he joined the Marines Corps he served in the first invasion of Iraq - Operation Iraqi Freedom - first as a rifle platoon commander in a helicopte...

85-year-old Alexander 'Sandy' Millar is best known as co-founder of the worldwide introduction course to Christianity known as 'Alpha'.

Though thoughts of being a clergyman were far from his mind when he was child. GHe grew up in Scotland during the second world war with a father who was a Major General. He went to boarding school and onto Cambridge eventually fulfilling his dream of becoming a criminal barrister. ...

Don’t believe the hype. That’s what God told Pat Barrett just before his songs became global sensations. Ahead of his appearance at Big Church Festival, the worship artists tells Sam Hailes why he loves coming to England. The Profile is brought to you by Premier Christianity Magazine, the UK’s leading Christian magazine. Through our publication, you’ll access thought-provoking Christian content, including the latest news, inspiring...